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How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast Series : Episode 7
This episode discusses how the anonymous author of “Prefaces to the Book of Poetry” turned “Osprey,” the first of the 305 Shijing poems, from a lively love song into a moral exempla by means of gender switching. It also explains that such imaginative gender switching was made possible by classical Chinese grammar, especially its ungendered use of pronouns and its frequent omission of sentence subjects.
This episode discusses how the anonymous author of “Prefaces to the Book of Poetry” turned “Osprey,” the first of the 305 Shijing poems, from a lively love song into a moral exempla by means of gender switching. It also explains that such imaginative gender switching was made possible by classical Chinese grammar, especially its ungendered use of pronouns and its frequent omission of sentence subjects.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | Advanced Institute for Global Chinese Studies, Lingnan University |
| Media of output | Sound Recording |
| Size | 12 min |
| Publication status | Published - 14 Mar 2022 |
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How to Read Chinese Poetry : Podcast Series
CAI, Z.-Q. (Host), Feb 2022, Advanced Institute for Global Chinese Studies, Lingnan University.Research output: Other contribution › Other outputs › Creative Works
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Poetry and Ideology: The Canonization of the Book of Poetry (Shijing) During the Han
CAI, Z.-Q. (Editor), Feb 2018, How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity through the Tang. CAI, Z.-Q. (ed.). Columbia University Press, p. 65-77 13 p.Research output: Book Chapters | Papers in Conference Proceedings › Book Chapter › Research › peer-review
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