Essential Resources for Tang Poetry Studies
Delve into Tang poetry with preliminary recommendations for beginners by Olga Lomov. Explore electronic sources, a Quan Tang shi database, critical editions, and on-line dictionaries for in-depth study and analysis.
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Sources for Tang Poetry Studies (some very perliminary recommendations for beginners) Olga Lomov
Supplement to previous talks: remark on names ( , , name with official title) Book titles: Various forms of naming in pre-modern sources (names shortened) Wang Wei and Meng Haoran , traditionally paired together imperial China, smacks official imperial China, smacks Buddhist modern, standard modern, standard
electronic sources NTU http://cls.lib.ntu.edu.tw/tang/Database/index.html (Only fanti zi) National Palace Museum databaze http://skqs.lib.ntnu.edu.tw/dragon/ (Supported by CCKF (http://www.cckf.org/zh/sino/00105))
electronic sources Excellent, with pingze and other functions, unfortunatelly not open access check your university resources) Souyun : https://sou-yun.cn/ Open access, several search options. With many functions, including references to allusions ( ), collected traditional commentariseas ( ) and embedded Hanyu Da Cidian . Be careful when using the Dictionary the vocabulary is not adapted to the context of specific poems. Enables identifying pingze. In jianti, be careful when changing to fanti as appropriate for Tang poetry.
Example of using Quan Tang shi database (open access) Textual Analysis of Complete Tang Poems for Discoveries and Applications Style, Antitheses, Social Networks, and Couplets: Chao-Lin Liu Chun-Ning Chang Chu-Ting Hsu Wen-Huei Cheng Hongsu Wang Wei-Yuan Chiu: https://aclanthology.org/O15-1005.pdf
Critical editions and supplementary materials , . Beijing: , 1997 ( 2018). , , (ed.). . Beijing: , 2014.
(On-line) Dictionaries Kroll Paul W et al. A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese. Third edition newly revised and expanded ed. Brill 2022. : https://www.zdic.net/, Based on (Hargett James M. Book Review: Hanyu Dacidian . Chinese Literature: Essays Articles Reviews (Clear) 1990 pp. 138 143.) Thesaurus linguae sericae (https://hxwd.org/index.html) Chief editors Christoph Harbsmeier and By far the most sophisticated. Provides detailed grammatical explanations, synonyms and antonyms, contextualized usage in historical perspective. Not open access, but you can try to register with the TLS community: Apply for membership in the TLS project.
Other useful databases and online resources Academia Sinica https://hanchi.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/ihp/hanji.htm Chinese Texts Project ( ): https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&res=210244 Resources for East Asian Language and Thought (primarily Buddhism) A. Charles Muller http://www.acmuller.net/
Language and reading skills CAI ZONG-QI. How to Read Chinese Poetry a Guided Anthology. Columbia University Press 2007. (plus a Workbook) Cai Zong-qi. How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context : Poetic Culture from Antiquity through the Tang. Columbia University Press 2018. Helpful as textbooks . The following two titles provide deeper insight into the language and the meter. . . Latest edition Beijing: Zhonghua shuju 2015, 2 Vols. Classic, explores the meter together with grammar (in linguistic sense) of Chinese poetry of all ages. . .Zhengzhou: Zhongzhou guji chubanshe, 1990 (later edition in Zhonghua shuju). Provides linguistic analysis of verses, helpful to understand better how the language works and how the poets manipulate standard language.
Basics on literary history Olga Lomov , Classical Chinese Poetry , in Oxford Bibliography Online Obsolete, in need of update, some basics still may be useful Chang Kang-i Sun and Stephen Owen. The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature. Cambridge University Press 2010. Excellent history of Ch. literature, beginning students lacking the very basics may sometimes get confused and may wish to supplement it with more conservative presentation of Chinese literary canon.
Reading to start Tang poetry studies Indispensable handbook: Denecke Wiebke et al. The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (1000 Bce-900 Ce). Oxford University Press 2017. Introductory readings worth to return to even after half a century: Liu James J. Y. Art of Chinese Poetry. ROUTLEDGE 2022.(1st. Ed. 1966) Watson Burton. Chinese Lyricism : Shih Poetry from the Second to the Twelfth Century with Translations. Columbia University Press 1971. YOSHIKAWA Ko jiro and Burton WATSON. An Introduction to Sung Poetry ... Translated by Burton Watson. [with Plates.]. Harvard University Press 1967.
Some more Selection of ground-breaking, still important articles on Tang history and literature by western scholars: Kroll Paul W. Critical Readings on Tang China. Volume 1+2. Brill 2018 (?). History of Chinese literary thought, based on translations with detailed commentaries and explanations: Owen Stephen. Readings in Chinese Literary Thought. Harvard Uni. Press, 1992 (and later editions). Interesting attempt to present Chinese literary canon interconnected across time. Worth consulting on individual themes and intertextual references: Owen Stephen. An Anthology of Chinese Literature : Beginnings to 1911. 1st ed. W.W. Norton 1996.
History of Tang poetry Owen Stephen. The Poetry of the Early Tang. Yale Uni. Press, 1977. New edition, Quirin Press, 2012. Useful to understand the structure and conventions of Tang poetry. Owen Stephen. The Great Age of Chinese Poetry : The High T'ang. Yale University Press 1981. The following 2 titles are supplementary reading for later historical periods of the Tang. Owen Stephen. The End of the Chinese 'Middle Ages' : Essays in Mid-Tang Literary Culture. Stanford University Press 1996. Owen Stephen. The Late Tang : Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860). Harvard University Press 2009.
