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Ch'u Tz'u : The Songs of the South, An Ancient Chinese Anthology
Ch'u Tz'u The Songs of the South An Ancient Chinese Anthology
Author: David Hawkes
In Ch'u, southernmost of the ancient Chinese kingdoms, an oral literature of shamanistic songs and chants was developed by secular poets of the third century B.C. into a strange and beautiful allegorical poetry in which magic, mythology and politics curiously intermingle. The Ch'u Tz'u anthology, dating from the second century A.D., is an early ...  more »
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ISBN: 422435
Publication Date: 1962
Pages: 229
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Publisher: Beacon Press
Book Type: Paperback
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