Resources for Xue Tao

Some of these have been mentioned in a couple of previous blogs so why am I doing it again?

Compared to the Major Tang poets like Tu Fu and Li Po translations of her work into English are limited. Larsen's 1987 book seems however to have revived interest in her work.

The best web site in English on Xue Tao with a bibliography and a selection of more recent translations is surely Disse's Other Womens' Voices. If you love poetry bookmark this site in your favorites list!

This site however does not include the Chinese text.

If you want the Chinese text of many of Xue Tao's poems it is available at www.xys.org

Jeanne Larsen's book Brocade Stream came out in 1987.

A major anthology used in American colleges that includes a few of her poems is Sunflower Splendour:3000 years of Chinese Poetry. This is one of those thick as a brick literally reference books. Edited by Liu and Lo it's translations range from the Book of Songs up to the early twentieth century!

I have not reviewed all of the books mentioned on the Disse site for the simple reason that I have not read all of them. Have fun chaisng them up.

Note to readers: If you live near a university library you may have it easier to access anthologies of Chinese verse tere however your local library may be able to get books in for you if they are part of an inter library loan scheme?

My collection is larger than the limited range in our local library however I picked up a lot of it second hand.

Residents of Sydney try Abbey's Bookshop. They will have translations upstairs in the Chinese language section and downstairs in Classics.

Overseas and elsewhere: keep an eye out for bilingual editions. I dont know if one has been done yet for Xue Tao but some Chinese publishers do editions of Chinese classics that have Chinese characters on one page and English translations on the other like the Loeb editions for Latin and Greek.

Some time over the next month I will be listing some anthologies and bilingual editons of Chinese Verse that I have read so please visit again all you lurking and surfing Sinophiles.

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