RELATED TOPIC:
The Book of Songs and China's Literary Tradition

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Legends of the Zhou and the Nature of Chinese Society

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The Han Dynasty Codification

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"The Great Preface" and Five Notions about Poetry

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Individual Voices in the Book of Songs

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Wang Can and the Poetry of Scholar-Officials during the Han

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Poetry of Retreat at the Fall of the Han

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Tao Qian and the Tradition of Retreat

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Prelude to Tang Poetry: Poetry of the Zhou and Han

 
CHINESE POETRY:
ORIGINS OF A LITERARY TRADITION

About the Speakers

Robert B. Oxnam
President Emeritus
Asia Society

Stephen Owen
James Bryant Conant University Professor; Professor of Comparative Literature
Harvard University

Paul Rouzer
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures
University of Minnesota

Marsha Wagner
Adjunct Professor of Chinese Literature
Columbia University

David D. W. Wang
Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature
Harvard University