Two Tang Dynasty Women Poets
June 16th 2007 07:07
Two Tang Women Poets
Well It's not a Book Title but I will be referring in this article to places where you can find e-texts and bibliographies to find out about 2 Tang Dynasty Women Poets.
The Tang Dynasty was a period of great creativity in several areas of Chinese culture.
One of those areas was poetry.
While there are many books in Chinese and English about these books fewer have been written about the female writers of that period.
You may have heard of an anthology called 300 Tang poets in English. This anthology was collated in the Qing dynasty and while it has become a standard text in Chinese very little mention is given of female poets.
You can be the original text and english translations of the 300 Tang poets on several sites and one particularly good one for students of Chinese culture is Zhongwen.com.
The two women writers I want to draw your attention to are Hsueh T'ao also called Xue Tao (768-831 AD) and Yu Hsuan Chi also known as Yu Xuan Ji (84-869).
Hsueh Tao's collected works are known as the Brocade River Collection. She was known to have written at least 450 poems. Only 100 survived to modern times.
Jeanne Larsen has translated them into English in a book with the same title.
You can read many of these at this site
Xue Tao Other Women's Vocies
Hsueh Tao seems to have been the concubine or mistress or paid hostess/resident artist fora Chinese General and later in life became a nun and a papermaker.
Yu Hsuan Chi didnt get to retire as a nun in some tranquil hermitage/cottage.
She died or was executed at 26 if the story is true about her beating a servant to death?
49 of her poems survive. Male historians say she was a Taoist nun.
Virginia University's Chinese Texts Initiaitive has put her poems on line in English and Chinese as a html document called The Clouds Float North
I found bibliographic information for books and links to etext on this site for womens poetry:
Dorothy Disse's Other Womens Voices
Enjoy both the poetry and the site! I suggest you bookmark it!
AAARGH its raining and thundering outside. Oh the marvelllous weather in sydney!
One of the several reasons Ivent blogged since Wednesday!
Cross fingers and hope this reaches you!
Well It's not a Book Title but I will be referring in this article to places where you can find e-texts and bibliographies to find out about 2 Tang Dynasty Women Poets.
The Tang Dynasty was a period of great creativity in several areas of Chinese culture.
One of those areas was poetry.
While there are many books in Chinese and English about these books fewer have been written about the female writers of that period.
You may have heard of an anthology called 300 Tang poets in English. This anthology was collated in the Qing dynasty and while it has become a standard text in Chinese very little mention is given of female poets.
You can be the original text and english translations of the 300 Tang poets on several sites and one particularly good one for students of Chinese culture is Zhongwen.com.
The two women writers I want to draw your attention to are Hsueh T'ao also called Xue Tao (768-831 AD) and Yu Hsuan Chi also known as Yu Xuan Ji (84-869).
Hsueh Tao's collected works are known as the Brocade River Collection. She was known to have written at least 450 poems. Only 100 survived to modern times.
Jeanne Larsen has translated them into English in a book with the same title.
You can read many of these at this site
Xue Tao Other Women's Vocies
Hsueh Tao seems to have been the concubine or mistress or paid hostess/resident artist fora Chinese General and later in life became a nun and a papermaker.
Yu Hsuan Chi didnt get to retire as a nun in some tranquil hermitage/cottage.
49 of her poems survive. Male historians say she was a Taoist nun.
Virginia University's Chinese Texts Initiaitive has put her poems on line in English and Chinese as a html document called The Clouds Float North
I found bibliographic information for books and links to etext on this site for womens poetry:
Dorothy Disse's Other Womens Voices
Enjoy both the poetry and the site! I suggest you bookmark it!
AAARGH its raining and thundering outside. Oh the marvelllous weather in sydney!
One of the several reasons Ivent blogged since Wednesday!
Cross fingers and hope this reaches you!
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