Public Domain Chinese Poetry Translations

[x_los]

 Some very exciting public domain Chinese Poetry translations, with substantial introductions and footnotes.

This includes:
- more Du Fu than you could ever want - Li Qingzhao: China's Foremost Woman Poet - one of the Caos, who I know are pivotal in the transition from Shi Jing shit to proper antiquity, but who, without a dedicated volume, I didn't really know how to approach
- noted Tang crazy bitch Li He; "poems famously explored ghostly, supernatural&fantastic themes." kicked out of Tang 300 for being too Weird - "Ruan Ji is usually mentioned first among the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. The other sages were Xi Kang his lover" a combo book for this queer couple!

Comments

[nnozomi]

Bookmarked, thank you. I don't know from Chinese poetry at all but this looks like a good resource if/when that changes. (Li He, science fiction poet?)

[x_los]

I don't know what to make of him. Ch 9 of How to Read Chinese Poetry makes him sound higher than I really know how to deal with in translation, but then I didn't love that chapter (it's a multi-author volume), so there's a good chance it's not Li He's fault and that man just requires more gloss than this was willing to give.