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      • Literature & Literary Studies

        A Brief History of Tang Poetry

        by Li bo

        Covering various poetry schools and poets of Tang Dynasty, and interpreting main themes and literary characteristics of great works with the selected fifty-two Tang poems from fifty-two well-known Tang poets, this book is intended to systematically show you the overall status of the social and cultural life of ancient Chinese and inner world of the spirit in the Tang Dynasty. This book is outstanding both in professionalism and readability with its in-depth explanation and exquisite writing style, and good enough to be an introductory book on poetry, culture, and history of Tang Dynasty.

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        August 2018

        Children of Tianhu

        by Yan Lianke

        Children of Tianhu is a non-fiction of Chinese writer Yan Lianke, the winner of Franz Kafka Prize. It’s about his emotions about the hometown and the growth. The storyline is the youth’s memories in hometown, it tells some important memories about the village Tianhu, the intimate neighborhood, meeting the girl Na, escaping to Longmen, etc. Yan says, the romance in the world, is nothing more than the memories of the childhood. The solid memory is the place called hometown. Children of Tianhu is a romantic and solid work, including the youth’s poor life in the village, the innocence and honesty, the thrill, the insecurity and the loneliness about exploring the world. Those fragments, those clear memories, the incredible age, the puppy’s love, the honesty between people, the kindness born from birth, the escape and the betrayal, those have deposited, becoming more striking, more deep and simple, and touching. The geography and the change of a village, the daily life of the villagers, the people and story remain in the brain, those exists and experiences never disappear along the life, they are the inspiration of the writer. Between the lines, it shows the wonder and the humor of the writing, and the writer’s strong emotions and concern about the hometown.

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        The Appreciation of Famous Classical Poems in Tang Dynasty

        by the Lexicographical Centre of Literary Appreciation Dictionary

        Tang Dynasty poetry is the climax in the history of Chinese classicalliterature. So many talented poets, including LiBai and DuFu, wrotethousands of great masterpieces. In this book, we pick up about twohundred Tang Dynasty poems, which are the most famous and popular, andinvite the top researchers and experts in relevant field to appreciate them,in order to help the readers to comprehend and enjoy the essence of thepoems.

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        August 2017

        Chinese Traditional Virtues in Ancient Poetry

        by Fang Xiaoyi, Rong Mo

        This book is divided into nine units: “caring about the world”, “the benevolent loves others”, “self-improvement”, “respecting the elder and family harmony”, “cherishing friendship”, “learning more and thinking deeply”, “obsessing the hometown”, “living a simple life”, and “natural harmony”. It covers the state, society, family, and interpersonal communication and reflects the spirit of self-improvement in the moral tradition of the Chinese nation, the character of eagerness to learn, the friendship of hometown, the indifference to fame and fortune, and the admiration for nature. Read to cultivate people’s moral character and learn to foster the virtue, hoping that the Chinese virtues infiltrated in ancient poetry can be passed down from generation to generation and touch you and me.

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