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The poems of Mao Zedong / translations, introduction, and notes by Willis Barnstone.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
Contributor:
Barnstone, Willis, 1927-
Standardized Title:
Mao zhu xi shi ci san shi qi shou. English & Chinese
Language:
Chinese
English
Subjects (All):
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976--Translations into English.
Mao, Zedong.
Chinese poetry--20th century--Translations into English.
Chinese poetry.
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976.
Genre:
Translations
Chinese poetry
Physical Description:
151 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Place of Publication:
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008?]
Language Note:
Poems in Chinese and English.
Summary:
Mao Zedong, leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the People's Republic of China, was also a calligrapher and a poet of extraordinary grace and eloquent simplicity. The poems in this beautiful edition (from the 1963 Beijing edition), translated and introduced by Willis Barnstone, are expressions of decades of struggle, the painful loss of his first wife, his hope for a new China, and his ultimate victory over the Nationalist forces. Willis Barnstone's introduction, his short biography of Mao and brief history of the revolution, and his notes on Chinese versification all combine to enrich the Western reader's understanding of Mao's poetry.
Contents:
Part I: Introduction
- Part II: The Poems. Changsha
Tower of the Yellow Crane
Jinggang Mountain
Warlords
Ninth Day of the Ninth Moon
New Year's Day
On the Road to Jian
Tingzhou to Changsha
First Siege
Second Siege
Region of the Great Pines
Huichang
Loushan Pass
Three Songs
The Long March
Kunlun Mountain
Liupan the Mountain of Six Circles
Snow
Capture of Nanking
Poem for Liu Yazi (1949)
Poem for Liu Yazi (1950)
Beidaihe
Swimming
The Gods
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1)
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2)
Return to Shaoshan
Climbing Lushan
Militia Women
To a Friend
Written on a Photograph of the Cave of the Gods
To Guo Moruo (1961)
In Praise of the Winter
lum Blossom
Winter Clouds
To Guo Moruo (1963)
- Part III: Afterword: Richard Nixon and Mao's poetry
- Part IV: Appendixes. The Translation
Chinese Versification
Mao's Calligraphy
Notes on the Poems.
Notes:
Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1972.
ISBN:
9780520256651
0520256654
9780520261624
0520261623
OCLC:
184906180

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