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Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China Anne Birrell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Birrell, Anne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese poetry--Qin and Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D--History and criticism.
- Chinese poetry.
- Chinese poetry--Qin and Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D--Translations into English.
- Yue fu (Chinese poetry)--History and criticism.
- Yue fu (Chinese poetry).
- Yue fu (Chinese poetry)--Translations into English.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 226 p., [2] p. of plates) : ill., map ;
- Edition:
- Pbk. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1993.
- Summary:
- The oral factor in Chinese literature, although critically important, has been largely neglected in the scholarship of the last generation.In this study, one of the leading specialists in classical Chinese literature introduces readers to a repertoire of seventy-seven songs and ballads of early imperial China.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Chronological Table
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Han Songs and Ballads as Social Documents
- Han Culture
- The Bureau of Music: Yüeh-fu
- The Genre of Yüeh-fu Songs and Ballads
- Kuo Mao-ch'ien's Twelve Categories of Yüeh-fu Songs and Ballads
- Sources of Kuo Mao-ch'ien 's Song-texts and Their Contexts
- The Oral Nature of Han Songs and Ballads
- The Art of Han Songs and Ballads
- Some Musical Aspects of Han Songs and Ballads
- The Singers of Yüeh-fu in the Han
- Criteria of Selection
- Hymns
- We Have Chosen a Timely Day
- Lord God Draws Nigh
- Greening Yang
- Scarlet Brilliance
- West White-light
- Darkness Obscure
- Lo! Holy Creator
- The Horse of Heaven
- The Song of Cheng-Pai Ditch
- The Ballad of the Prefect of Goosegate
- Fables in Verse
- Vermilion lbis
- South of the River
- Young Pheasant Fancy-plume
- A Crow Bore Eight or Nine Chicks
- If in a High Field
- The Fierce Tiger Ballad
- An Old Ballad, Two White Swans
- A Yen Song, The Whenever Ballad
- The Butterfly
- A Withered Fish
- Song of Sighs, The Date-Tree
- A Yen Song, A Ballad
- The Yü-chang Ballad
- The Pomelo, An Old Poem
- The Elixir of Life
- Up the Mound
- A Long Song Ballad, no. 2
- The Ballad Tung Flees!
- The Song of Tung Peach
- The King of Huai-nan Ballad
- Walking out of Hsia Gate, A Ballad
- An Old Yen Song
- Carpe Diem
- How Wonderful! A Ballad
- A Long Song Ballad, no. 1
- Song of Melancholy
- West Gate Ballad
- 'Nineteen Old Poems'
- Burial Songs
- Dew on the Shallot
- Artemisia Village
- The Lament of Liang-fu
- Political Broadsides
- Well-water Overflows
- Crooked Paths
- Swallow, Swallow
- East of Flat Mound.
- Straight as a Bowstring
- Short Wheat
- Crows on City Walls
- The Song Tung Flees!
- The Ballad of Breaking Willow
- Anti-war Ballads and Songs
- Light in the East
- We Fought South of the City Wall
- Watering Horses at a Long Wall Hole
- At Fifteen I Joined the Army
- Domestic Drama
- The Ballad of the Orphan Boy
- The Ballad of the Ailing Wife
- East Gate Ballad
- The Ballad of Shang-liu-t'ien
- Homeward Thoughts
- An Old Eight Changes Song
- An Old Song
- A Long Song Ballad, no. 3
- Mount Wu is High
- The Sad Song Ballad
- Love Songs
- Almighty on High!
- I Lean from the High Terrace
- The One I Love
- The Harp Lay
- Along the Embankment
- The White Head Lament
- Heartache, A Ballad
- The Ideal Home and Perfect Marriage
- Cocks Crow
- They Met‚ A Ballad
- In Ch'angan There is a Narrow Lane
- Mulberry on the Bank
- The Lunghsi Ballad
- Notes
- CHAPTER ONE: Hymns
- CHAPTER TWO: Fables in Verse
- CHAPTER THREE: The Elixir of Life
- CHAPTER FOUR: Carpe Diem
- CHAPTER FIVE: Burial Songs
- CHAPTER SIX: Political Broadsides
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Anti-war Ballads and Songs
- CHAPTER EIGHT: Domestic Drama
- CHAPTER NINE: Homeward Thoughts
- CHAPTER TEN: Love Songs
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Ideal Home and Perfect Marriage
- Shen Yüeh's Four Categories of Melodic Pieces
- Kuo Mao-ch'ien's Twelve Categories of Yüeh-fu
- Earliest Sources of Han Yüeh-Fu Cited
- Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- Secondary References, Chinese and Japanese
- Secondary References, Western.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-221) and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8248-8034-X
- OCLC:
- 1053883873
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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