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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 »selection of works by the Ch'u poets and some of their later imitators.« less