The Clouds Float North The Complete Poems of Yu Xuanji |
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Author:
| Yu, |
Translator:
| Young, David Lin, Jiann I. |
Series title: | Wesleyan Poetry Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8195-6344-6 |
Publication Date: | Nov 1998 |
Publisher: | Wesleyan University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $15.95 |
Book Description:
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"Outside of her remarkable poems, we know next to nothing about Yu Xuanji," David Young writes. "She was born in 844 and died in 868, at the age of twenty-four, condemned to death for the murder of her maid...We owe the survival of her forty-nine poems to the ancient Chinese anthologists' urge to be complete."
"Outside of her remarkable poems, we know next to nothing about Yu Xuanji," David Young writes. "She was born in 844 and died in 868, at the age of twenty-four, condemned to death for the murder of her maid...We owe the survival of her forty-nine poems to the ancient Chinese anthologists' urge to be complete."