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Gems of classical Chinese poetry / translated into English by Xu Yuan Zhong, translated into modern chinese by Xu Fang Han Shan

Material type: TextTextPublication details: Beijing : Zhonghua Book Company, c2006. Description: 321 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 7101049400Other title: 新编千家诗DDC classification: 895.1108 GEM
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This is a new Chinese-English edition of Gems of Classical Chinese Poetry. Xu Yuan Zhong, the English translator of the poetry, presents again in this book accurate and elegant translation of classic Chinese poetry.
Gems of Classical Chinese Poetry contains 152 poems. To make it easy to read and memorize, the scholars arranged the poems in the order of pentasyllabic quatrains, hepasyllabic regulated verses, pentasyllabic ancient-style poems, and heptasyllabic anciet-style poems. Under each form, the poets are arranged in a chronological order.
Mr. Xu Fang and Mrs Han Shan have translated the original texts into modern Chinese, and Mr. Xu Yuan Zhong has translated the poems into English. Therefore from this book readers can read the original poems with both modern Chinese version and English translation

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