Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650 : The Chin, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties

__Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry__ offers the only historical survey, in any language, of this important span of Chinese poetry. Written by the foremost Japanese sinologist of this century, and translated here in a lucid analogue to his famous prose style, the work provides a brief but comprehensive review of the period's literary history, a sketch of its political and social history in relation to literature, and a rendering of more than one hundred and fifty poems. Originally published in 1989. The **Princeton Legacy Library** uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry offers the only historical survey, in any language, of this important span of Chinese poetry. Written by the foremost Japanese sinologist of this century, and translated here in a lucid analogue to his famous prose style, the work provides a brief but comprehensive review of the period's literary history, a sketch of its political and social history in relation to literature, and a rendering of more than one hundred and fifty poems. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 Contents Acknowledgments Translator's Preface Introduction Chapter 1. CHINESE POETRY OF THE LATER IMPERIAL DYNASTIES Chapter 2. CHIN DYNASTY POETRY: REACTION TO THE MONGOL INCURSION, 1150-1250 Chapter 3. SOUTHERN SUNG LOYALIST POETRY, 1250-1300 Chapter 4. THE MATURATION OF YUAN POETRY, 1300-1350 Chapter 5. THE EARLY MING, 1350-1400 Chapter 6. THE MIDDLE MING (I): STAGNATION AND REVIVAL, 1400-1500 Chapter 7. THE MIDDLE MING (II) : THE AGE OF OLD PHRASEOLOGY, 1500-1600 Chapter 8. THE LATE MING, 1600-1650 Afterword Index "Translation of Kaojirao Yoshikawa, Gen Min shi gaisetsu (Ch\AO\ugoku shijin sensh\O\u, Series 2, Vol. 2) (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1963)."--Title page verso.