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Ma Chih-yüan's Complete San-ch'ü-aria Poems: Chinese Culture Series No7

Ma Chih-yüan's Complete San-ch'ü-aria Poems: Chinese Culture Series No7

          
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Ma Chih-yüan was a ch'ü-poet and playwright, who lived during the 13th century, possibly into the early years of the 14th. He had a reclusive Taoistic self-nickname meaning "Eastern Bamboo-Fence", and was from Ta-tu, although that may not have been his precise or true domicile of origin. After the Mongol completion of their conquest of China in the 1270s, he held a post in the administration of a province in the region of present-day Kiangsu, Anhwei, Kiangsi and Fukien provinces. It may have been a post concerned with taxation and of fairly minor standing, reminding of Robert Burns the exciseman! Another, less reliable source says that it was that of a mandarin of fifth or sixth grade, in charge of such matters as schools, education, civil service examinations, records, documents and sacrificial ceremonies, or alternatively one in charge of medical affairs, the former post being established in AD 1281, and the latter in AD 1288.

The free poems of the Chinese playwright and poet Ma Chih-yuan (13th century AD) include some of the very best of his times, and indeed some unmatched elsewhere. This is the first complete translation of his poems, and for many of them the first Western language translation. He has a wide range of topics: Love, dropping out from society, lending a favourite horse, a unique description of fast calligraphy in action, the fragility of dynasties, political failures and successes, scenic vignettes, and others. The poems are written in the most spontaneous-feeling multi-level style of Chinese verse, and are resonant with many allusions to other literature, and to history and myths, this book providing extensive background elucidations for the extra depth and intricacy which the use of allusion involves. The poems further give us a vivid glimpse of the attitudes and philosophy of a poet in China under Mongol rule and at the time of Marco Polo's descriptions.

These renderings may at least hint at the qualities that made Ma Chih-yüan's poetry so enjoyable for his contemporaries and Chinese posterity.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781541145481
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 298
  • Series Title: Chinese Culture
  • Sub Title: Chinese Culture Series No7
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1541145488
  • Publisher Date: 17 Dec 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Weight: 440 gr


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