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  1. May 30, 2018 · The Book of Songs: Poems that helped shape Chinese thought. A collection of ‘folk poems’ said to have been picked up from alleys and fields around China, The Book of Songs also functioned as ...

  2. Dec 1, 2017 · The structural and conceptual constituents of Chinese narrative song are closely. connected with the development of Chinese language and culture, people’s worldview. and mentality. A narrator is ...

  3. Sep 9, 2020 · In terms of poetic themes and techniques, Berengarten’s opus charts a direct route from the Book of Changes, through ancient Chinese poetry and Anglo-American modernist poetry, to a remarkable work of world literature. And although it draws its creative inspiration and thematic sources directly from the first Chinese classic, the book is “not a translation or a commentary” on it, as it ...

  4. Jan 12, 2023 · The Shijing, or Book of Odes (aka Classic of Poetry, Book of Songs, etc.) is the fountainhead of the Chinese literary tradition. An anthology of 305 undated and anonymous poems that probably arose from the regional courts of the Eastern Zhou period (770–256 BCE) and according to tradition was arranged by Confucius (551–479 BCE), it contains ...

  5. The earliest Chinese poetry begins with the Shih Ching, a collection of 305 poems of varying length, drawn from all ranks of Chinese society. The title Shih Ching is usually translated in English as The Book of Songs or sometimes as The Odes. Shih means "song-words." Ching can mean "classic" or "traditional" or in the context of literature, it

  6. Popular songs in China. as Leon Lai and Faye Wong gave charity concerts on the mainland, such as 'Rebuild the Great Wall Together', a fundraising event in Beijing City on 21 August 1998, jointly organized by the Chinese Cultural Department and the People's Affairs Department for the Changjian flood. „ 76 victims.

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  8. The Jesuit Encounter with the Yijing. The Jesuit missionaries played the major role in transmitting Chinese culture to the West. Ironically, the westward movement of the Yijing began with the eastward movement of the West. Beginning in the late sixteenth century, in a pattern replicated in many other parts of the world, Jesuit missionaries ...