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Performance and Interpretation: Studies in Early Chinese Poetics

(u. S. A.) Written By Martin Ko, Edited By Guo Xi'an

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The first Chinese academic collection by the famous sinologist Martin Kern includes 16 articles discussing poetry and poetics in the Zhou, Qin, and Han dynasties from 1996 to 2022. It focuses on the development of early Chinese poetry, its connection with ritual performances, the formation of cultural memory and identity, and the interpretation tradition of early and medieval Chinese poetry. The discussion objects focus on the Book of Songs, Western Han odes, poems, Qin Shihuang stele, Chu Ci, etc. All the articles in the collection have been supplemented and improved by the author and significantly revised by the editor, and are now presented in chronological order.