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Loose translations of Book of Songs, with the Chinese, by Tom Sharp #Poetry #Chinese #Classic #Translation #Shijing #Guófēng (https://sharpgiving.com/Sharp/Songs/index.html)
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Work is frustrating, my face is multicoloured with bruises, and I have to go out in the cold, but at least I have a paper about human sacrifice in the Qin Dynasty and its representation in the #Shijing to read.
https://books.openedition.org/pulg/8183?lang=en
(And at least no one’s going to push me into a pit if my product owner dies. It’s the little things.)
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#ChineseLiterature #ChinesePoetry folk, has anyone got a recommendation for books/articles about the #Shijing? I’m back reading the Waley translation and greatly enjoying it, but I’d love some more context, both on the history and on the commentaries that have informed the translation choices.
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I’m still reading the Book of Songs, but I admit my velocity has dropped off a bit after reaching the end of the Airs of the States.
Feeling somewhat vindicated by this episode of the #ChineseLiteraturePodcast, which discusses the poem She Bore the Folk (生民): https://chineseliteraturepodcast.libsyn.com/podcast/she-bore-the-folk, https://podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/chinese-literature-podcast/id1102235260?i=1000631326273. Lee Moore points out that although all the poems in the #Shijing are important, it’s the lyric ones that are most quoted in Chinese literature, not the narrative ones!
There’s also some musing on the different place of mythology in Chinese vs Green literature.
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I’m currently reading the #Shijing (Arthur Waley’s translation) and, by coincidence, the Chinese Literature Podcast has just started a series on it: https://podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/chinese-literature-podcast/id1102235260?i=1000628073088, https://chineseliteraturepodcast.libsyn.com/podcast/book-of-poetry-the-big-rat
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Three songs from the #Shijing that make me SUPER curious about what people were saying.
Arthur Waley’s translation. #ChinesePoetry #gossip
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I've started a list of #ClassicalChinese scholars & people interested in #Yijing, #Kongfuzi, #Laozi, #Shijing, etc. posting on Mastodon here: https://forms.gle/NPVSo7V27Uuz9DBw5
If this is you, please sign up!If you'd like to follow #ChineseHistory people, responses are here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ar8jAVSFppGj7vGten0KJNZwNVTA2kDMffShny6_jUw/