Library of Chinese Classics: Gems of Classical Chinese Poetry

Library of Chinese Classics: Gems of Classical Chinese Poetry (Chinese-English)

Compiled by Yuan Xingpei

Translated into English by Xu Yuanchong

Translated into modern Chinese by Xu Fang, Han Shan

Published by Zhonghua Book Company, 2006

Library binding book, dimensions 960 x 640, 1/16, hardcover, 321 pages

ISBN: 7101049400

ISBN: 9787101049404

This is a new Chinese-English edition of Gems of Classical Chinese Poetry. Xu Yuan Zhong, the English translator of the poetry, presents again in this book accurate and elegant translation of classic Chinese poetry.

Gems of Classical Chinese Poetry contains 152 poems. To make it easy to read and memorize, the scholars arranged the poems in the order of pentasyllabic quatrains, hepasyllabic regulated verses, pentasyllabic ancient-style poems, and heptasyllabic anciet-style poems. Under each form, the poets are arranged in a chronological order.

Mr. Xu Fang and Mrs Han Shan have translated the original texts into modern Chinese, and Mr. Xu Yuan Zhong has translated the poems into English. Therefore from this book readers can read the original poems with both modern Chinese version and English