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In this volume, leading scholars of early Chinese literature offer new, multi-faceted research on the ancient anthology
Lyrics of Chu (
Chuci). Through meticulous textual analysis, richly annotated translations, and theoretical reflection, they challenge millennia-old assumptions about China’s arch-poet Qu Yuan (ca. 300 BCE), his authorship, and the composition of the lyrics attributed to him, above all the “Li sao” (Encountering Sorrow), ancient China’s grandest poem.
Thoroughly original insights into the poetics and aesthetics of
Chuci poetry reopen these resplendent lyrics to a fresh appraisal of their captivating qualities and their foundational significance for the Chinese literary tradition.
Contributors are: Lucas Rambo Bender, Heng Du, Michael Hunter, Martin Kern, Paul W. Kroll, Stephen Owen.
Contributors are: Lucas Rambo Bender, Heng Du, Michael Hunter, Martin Kern, Paul W. Kroll, Stephen Owen.
Martin Kern, Ph.D. (1996, Cologne University, Germany) is the Joanna and Greg ’84 P13 P18 Zeluck Professor in Asian Studies at Princeton. His numerous publications cut across all genres of Chinese literature, historiography, and thought from the first millennium BCE.
Stephen Owen, Ph.D. (1972, Yale University), is James Bryant Conant University Professor Emeritus atHarvard. He has published numerous books and articles on Middle Period Chinese literature, most recently All Mine!: Happiness, Ownership, and Naming in Eleventh-Century China (Columbia, 2022).
Stephen Owen, Ph.D. (1972, Yale University), is James Bryant Conant University Professor Emeritus atHarvard. He has published numerous books and articles on Middle Period Chinese literature, most recently All Mine!: Happiness, Ownership, and Naming in Eleventh-Century China (Columbia, 2022).
All students and scholars of classical Chinese poetry and poetics, premodern comparative literature and literary criticism, comparative antiquity, authorship in the ancient world, and early Chinese intellectual history.