Classical Poetry

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Rating 2.4
The True Gale 沙代 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 This is a contemporary poetry collection. Through a poet's eye, the author magnifies many details of village life—night watching, scarecrows, spraying…
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Rating 2.5
Poetry Drafts from the Studio of Embracing Simplicity 果志京 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 This collection gathers poems the author composed in the classical Chinese forms, drawing their material from his own life and recording what he has s…
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Rating 2.5
Poems Speak for Themselves: A Collection 张成昱 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 This is an original collection of personal poetry, comprising classical-style verse written by the author between 2014 and 2020. The poems chiefly ref…
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Rating 2.8
A Collection of Smiles 赵嗣龙 Universal Publishing House · 2024 A collection of posthumous manuscripts left by the author's father, mainly poetry (mostly modern verse) and prose, along with several original couplet…
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Rating 3.8
The Poems of Xie Lingyun 王宁 / 顾德希 / 殷石臞 / Wang Cheng The Commercial Press · 2023 Compiled in the 1930s, this book is based mainly on the Wen Xuan and also references selections made by earlier masters such as Feng Weine, Wang Shizh…
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Rating 4.0
Collected Works of Wang Shizhen 王小舒 / 陈广澧 / Zhang Peiheng / An Pingqiu / 马樟根 / Huang Yongnian Phoenix Books, Ltd. · 2023 Wang Shizhen, courtesy names Zizhen and Yishang, art names Ruanting and Yuyang Shanren, commonly known as Wang Yuyang, posthumous title Wenjian, was a…
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Rating 3.8
Poems by Huang Zhongze 朱建新 / 司晓莲 / 王宁 / 顾德希 The Commercial Press · 2023 Huang Zhongze, a talented poet who died young, is regarded as the foremost figure of Qianlong-era Qing poetry. In modern times, writers such as Yu Daf…
Prosperity and Solitude: A Study of the Reception History of the Ci Poetry of Liu Yong and Zhou Bangyan cover
Rating 3.7
Prosperity and Solitude: A Study of the Reception History of the Ci Poetry of Liu Yong and Zhou Bangyan 陈福升 Peking University Press · 2025 Liu Yong and Zhou Bangyan are two milestone ci poets in the history of Song ci. Both were talented and romantic men who understood music and knew its …
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Rating 3.2
Clear 包华其 · 2023 Clear is a poetry collection by young poet Bao Huaqi. Written over the years the author worked in Pingxiang, it is a collection that records the mount…
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Rating 2.7
Song of Life 郝万明 · 2023 Song of Life is a poetry collection by Hao Wanming, a writer from Yueyang, Hunan, that sings in praise of life and reflects on living. Organized aroun…
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Rating 2.3
Poetic Rhymes of Shenzhen 晏诗韵 · 2023 Shi Yun Shenzhen reads like its author Yan Shiyun's name—poetic and lyrical, like a poem, like a painting. Every poem carries Shenzhen elements, the s…
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Rating 2.9
Poems from Xinzhou 汪俊辉 · 2023 Xinzhou Yincao is a personal collection of classical poetry, consisting mainly of more than 320 original regulated verse and ci poems. Its content chi…
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Rating 3.0
Little Layered Mountains Along the Path 韦华荣 · 2023 Moshang Xiaochongshan is the accumulation of the author's works over several decades. The author channels what he has seen and heard in life and what …
Brilliant Talents Shine Like Stars: Selected Outstanding Works from the 2021 Tengwang Pavilion Golden Autumn Poetry Gathering Global Poetry Collection Competition cover
Rating 2.6
Brilliant Talents Shine Like Stars: Selected Outstanding Works from the 2021 Tengwang Pavilion Golden Autumn Poetry Gathering Global Poetry Collection Competition 滕王阁金秋诗会组委会 · 2025 In 2021, the Tengwang Pavilion Golden Autumn Poetry Gathering Global Poetry Competition was successfully held. A judging panel composed of prominent s…
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Rating 4.6
Just a Song: Chinese Lyrics from the 11th to the Early 12th Century 宇文所安 / 麦慧君 / Du Feiran / Liu Chen SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 The author focuses on and traces the Northern Song period, following how ci—originally a performance text for banquets and drinking gatherings, namely…
Wei Feng: Selected Works from the Sixth "China Poetry River · Hebi" International Poetry Competition cover
Rating 2.7
Wei Feng: Selected Works from the Sixth "China Poetry River · Hebi" International Poetry Competition 李建东 / 郝子奇 Henan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022 The Qi River is steeped in poetry, and what flows through it is an unbroken stream of verse.
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Rating 4.2
Collated and Annotated Poetry Manuscripts of Ningxiang Pavilion 倪仁吉 / 楼含松 / 金玲 Zhonghua Book Company · 2022 This book is an annotated compilation of poems by Ni Renji, a writer of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Ni Renji was skilled in poetry and pro…
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Rating 2.9
One Hundred Poems and Lyrics by Liang Zhitang (Chinese-English) 梁之汤 / 梁之恕 Jinan University Press · 2021 The author, Liang Zhitang, is a devoted lover of poetry. A long-time writer of classical verse, he has a deep grounding in classical Chinese and obser…
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Rating 2.9
The Wind of My Four Seasons 马新建 / 李燕平 China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing House · 2021 Dongxian Ge A sudden fragrance spills and fills the air—it is the purple lilac petals. Unbidden, plain clusters vie in beauty and strange charm; the s…
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Rating 4.2
Selected Works of Zha Shenxing 查慎行 / 聂世美 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 Zha Shenxing roamed half the world and wrote more than ten thousand poems. His style presses close to Su Shi and Lu You, brimming with talent; his con…