Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China.
Rare and modern books
Birrell, Anne.
University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 1988,
Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China.
Rare and modern books
Birrell, Anne.
University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 1988,
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Details
- Author
- Birrell, Anne.
- Publishers
- University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 1988
- Keyword
- CINA China Chine
- Binding description
- H
- Dust jacket
- False
- State of preservation
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
8vo Map, 226pp, appendices, index, good in little worn dustjacket, small stain front free endpaper, otherwise good. . "In this study, one of the leading specialists in classical Chinese literature introduces readers to a repertoire of 77 songs and ballads of early imperial China. Each song-text is newly translated and fully annotated and explicated. Anne Birrell deals systematically with problems of the earliest sources, attribution, textual variations, meter, and structure. Her introductory essay provides a valuable sociohistorical context for this material." Publisher's blurb.
