The Art of Chinese Couplets

Description

The Art of Chinese Couplets

Author: Hu Huiyun
Translators: Wang Jinghui
Order No. 1130
ISBN-13: 9781622460243
ISBN-10:  1622460243
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Homa & Sekey Books
Pub Year: 2016
Language: English
Size: 6 x 9
Page: 289
Price: $29.95. You pay only $17.97 (after 40% discount).

About the Book

Chinese couplets always shine with sparkling beauty but there are also sophisticated rules behind the composing of these concise distiches. This book contains 85 kinds of rules of composing couplets and forms a systematic frame defined as couplet prosody, which is different from the prosody of other literary genres such as Tang Poem, Song Ci or Yuan Drama. Readers of this book will have the chance to get a glimpse of the structure of the Chinese couplets and perceive how they are generated; develop a close contact with the ancient Chinese philosophy which runs through the comprehensive collection of couplets composed for the study, the living room, the pavilion in the garden, as well as the centos of various sources. Lastly, readers would witness the artistic elegance of various calligraphic styles from the collection of couplet calligraphies by famous poets and writers.

About the Author

Hu Huiyun is a veteran researcher on Chinese couplets. Inspired by the Tai Chi philosophy, he has been studying in the field of Chinese couplets since 1960s. He has published many books on this subject, including Chinese Couplets: A Introduction and Collection. Born in Henan Province, one of the cradles of Chinese civilization, he is also engaged in researching the history of his hometown, Zhenping County. He was the chief compiler of the book A General History of Zhenping County, which won the Social Science Award of Henan Province. His research revealed that Zhenping County was the birthplace of Jiang Shang, a famous ancient Chinese military strategist lived in 3,000 years ago. The research won him considerable praise.

About the Translator

Wang Jinghui is Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural studies. She is the deputy director of Australian Studies Centre, and the head of Discipline Group of World Literature and Cultural Studies at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, P. R. China. Her research interest is literary theory, English literature, and ancient Chinese philosophy.