About the author
Jiang Kui is a well-known ci poet and writer on calligraphy theory in the history of Chinese literature. Public information about him is limited, and neither his exact birth and death years nor his native place is clearly recorded. Four of his works are included here, covering poetry, ci studies, and calligraphy theory: Xu Shu Pu, Shuzheng of Baishi Daoren's Songs, Gusu Huaigu, and Jiang Kui's Ci Collection. These works show his deep accomplishment both in composing regulated ci and in discussing calligraphy: his ci often express personal feeling and the scenery of Jiangnan, with careful attention to musical mode and a clear, elegant language that conveys a sense of his life experience through restraint, while Xu Shu Pu continues earlier calligraphic discourse, discussing brush methods and aesthetics with balanced judgment. Jiang Kui's works have continued to receive attention in later ci studies and calligraphy research, and are often grouped under categories such as ancient poetry and Eastern philosophy for readers to study.
Written (4)
Rating 4.6★ Sequel to The Treatise on Calligraphy 姜夔 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive, and literary. Its early forms are striking: religious theology, clas… Rating 4.5★ Textual Commentary on the Songs of Baishi Daoren 姜夔 Bashu Publishing House · 2024 The Annotated Edition of Baishi Daoren's Songs, also called Baishi's Ci, is a collection of ci and song scores by Jiang Kui (known as Baishi Daoren) o… Rating 4.3★ Reflections on the Past at Gusu 姜夔 Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024 "Gusu: Reflections on the Past" is a seven-character quatrain by Jiang Kui, a poet of the Southern Song dynasty. Rating 4.1★ The Ci Poetry of Jiang Kui 姜夔 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2015 Jiang Kui (1155–1209), courtesy name Yaozhang, sobriquet Baishi Daoren (White Stone Daoist), was a celebrated ci poet of the Southern Song, a native o…Publishers
Shanghai Classics Publishing HouseJinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju)Bashu Publishing House