Post-Song Dynasty Poetry

Note also the webpage:

Yuan Haowen 元好問 (1190-1257) and the Jin Dynasty 金代 (1115-1234)

Book translation:

      Yoshikawa Kōjirō 吉川幸次郎, Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650: The Chin, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties, John Timothy Wixted, tr. (Princeton: Princeton Univer­sity Press, 1989). Afterword by William S. Atwell. xix,215 pp. Complete text available online via Internet Archive and via JSTOR.

Translated from the Japanese (original title: Gen-Min shi gaisetsu 元明詩概説 (Tokyo: Iwa­nami Shoten, 1963); includes English renderings of the 130 complete (and several partial) poems in classical Chinese cited in the work. (A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 1991.)

Title-page, table of contents, and index of the book:

Table of contents and index, Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry

Chinese texts for the 130 poems translated in the book (plus a few prose pieces and partial poems), 33 pp.; co-compiler Cui Jie 崔洁: 

Chinese texts for Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry

Introductory chapter to the book: “Chinese Poetry of the Later Imperial Dynasties,” pp. 8-14:   

Yoshikawa Kōjirō, “Chinese Poetry of the Later Imperial Dynasties”

For the chapter that treats Yuan Haowen and Jin dynasty poetry, see the Yuan Haowen 元好問 webpage. 

List of reviews of the book:

Reviews of Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry

For discussion of translating the work, see pp. 88-89 of the “Research summary” cited on the Yuan Haowen 元好問 webpage. 

For reference to the work’s treatment of Chinese literary theory and criticism, see the Chinese Literary Criticism - General webpage.

For reference to the work’s treatment of Chinese influences on Japanese literature, see the Classical Japanese webpage. 

Article:

      “Poetry of the Fourteenth Century,” in The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, Victor H. Mair, ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), pp. 390-398.

Article on Chinese poetry of the fourteenth century

Translated summaries of articles:

      For additional material dealing in part with the later imperial dynasties, see the Japanese Sinology webpage, where summaries of articles by Tanaka Issei 田仲一成, a leading scholar of Chinese drama, are listed, as is the summary by Satō Tamotsu 佐藤保 of a decade's Japanese research on Chinese literature.  

Index to abstracts:

     “An Index to Abstracts concerning Chinese Poetry in the Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie (Vols. I-VIII) and in the Chūgoku bungaku hō (Journal of Chinese Literature) (Vols. I-XXII).” Unpublished. 26 pp. June 1970. Pp. 17-23 treat Song Dynasty and later poetry.

Chinese Poetry Abstracts in RBS and CBH to ca. 1970

Research resource:

      Note "Index H" to Japanese Scholars of China: A Bibliographic Handbook (for full citation, see the Japanese Sinology webpage), which  lists scholars by field of study (about whom more bibliographic information is supplied in the body of the handbook). Those active in the study of Ming- and Qing-dynasty history and literature are listed on pp. 419-421, 444-445, 446-447, and 453.