An Anthology of Poetry by Buddhist Nuns of Late Imperial China - Beata Grant

An Anthology of Poetry by Buddhist Nuns of Late Imperial China - Beata Grant

An Anthology of Poetry by Buddhist Nuns of Late Imperial China - Beata Grant

320

Pagini

2023

An

Hardcover

Copertă

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Editura Oxford University Press
Copertă Hardcover
Pagini 320
An publicare 2023
ISBN 9780197586310
Categorii
Poezie

Descriere

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. This anthology opens up new religious and poetic worlds for readers. It consists of translations of poe...

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. This anthology opens up new religious and poetic worlds for readers. It consists of translations of poems written by Buddhist nuns from China's late imperial period (1368-1911). Appreciation of these poems is enhanced by individual biographical accounts for each of the sixty-five nun-poets and an Introduction to the historical, religious, and literary context of these poems, including a concise discussion of Chinese Buddhism and Chinese Buddhist poetry. The nuns in this anthology come from a range of backgrounds: some were placed in convents when very young; others were former palace ladies or courtesans who found refuge in the religious life; others were women left widowed or destitute in the wake of the various political and social upheavals of the times, especially the violent transition between the Ming and Qing dynasties in the mid-seventeenth century.

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