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Three Hundred Tang Poems
Three Hundred Tang Poems is the anthology every Chinese reader knows: Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Bai Juyi, Li Shangyin and many more, the best poems of China's greatest age. Compiled in 1763 for teaching, it covers every form, from short quatrains to long ballads, and remains the best introduction to Chinese poetry. This is a complete new English translation, with names in modern pinyin and the text rendered as plain, readable English prose. Each poem is given in clear English that keeps its images and its order of lines, so readers can follow the poet's thought without notes. Poetry was the highest art of traditional China, written by emperors, officials, monks, courtesans and soldiers, and these poems are among the finest ever written in any language.
