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... 2017 Nie Gannu classical-style poetry self-exploration poems of grievance refined man Nie Gannu 聶紺弩 (1903–86) is best known for the extraordinary classical-style poems ( qishi 奇詩) he produced in the last thirty years of his life. He did not begin to write poetry seriously until the late...

... or risk grave misinterpretation. Xianqiu Meng seems a typical case in point. If he had not neglected the poem's context, he would not have blundered into reading a rhetorical statement as factual description and mistaking the poem as praise of the king's power rather than an expression of grievances...

... and complicated. Han Yu's 韓愈 (768–824) poem “A Note for Han Xiang about Banishment to Lantian Guan” 左遷至藍關示侄孫湘 (Zuoqian zhi Lantian guan shi zhisun Xiang) describes his posting as provincial governor 刺史 of Chaozhou 潮州 by Tang emperor Xianzhong 憲宗 (778–820) after he criticized the imperial edict to import...

... Hairpin); the anonymous Caishan tishi 綵扇題詩 (Writing Poems on the Colored Fan); Zheng Guangzu's Yushu houtinghua 玉樹後庭花 (Jade Trees and Flowers in the Rear Courtyard); Yu Jifu's Pipa yuan 琵琶怨 (The Lute's Grievance); Guan Hanqing's Xiangru tizhu 相如題柱 (Sima Xiangru Inscribes His Verse on the Pillar...

... for the murder. He never said a word about Erlang and Erlang's grievance. But a military general who happened to be camped with his troops in Ezhou heard the whole story about what had happened from those who knew. Impressed by Zhang Er's “commitment and loyalty” ( zhiyi 志義; i.e., to Erlang), he recruited Zhang...

... (864–937?) makes this point in one of his poems on Jia Dao 賈島 (779–843): Reading Jia Dao's Collected Works 讀賈島集 You left behind three hundred poems, 遺篇三百首 2 Every poem a lingering grievance. 首首是遺冤 I know that over a thousand years hence 知到千年外 4 They'll meet someone else...

...) poem the old tenor of the Han 漢 (202 BCE–220 CE) and Wei 魏 (220–65) periods. However, Du Fu did not merely imitate his Han-Wei predecessors in terms of form and style. Instead, with his efforts at recovery of the creative principles driving the Han-Wei ancient form, Du Fu succeeded in distilling...

... of the girls' brilliant experience with the examinations in the second half of the novel can be seen as Tang Ao's fiction, wherein he finds expression for both his grievances and his fantasies as an outcast from the system of official selection. As a fiction about fiction making, Jinghua yuan is a novelistic...

..., how can we possibly have poetry? If not for the purpose of depicting one's own self and mind, what's the point of composing poetry? So poetry is the envoy of the heart and an outlet of anger and grievances of the time. When a poet feels the flow of his emotions being impeded or that what's in his...

... It is fortunate that some writings by Zhang Xun himself have survived, offering records of Zhang's self-fashioning through poetry. One poem directly describes his experience during the defense of Suiyang: Written on the Defense of Suiyang 守睢陽作 Bitter battles since the coming of spring; 接戰春來苦...

.... As much as the expressive figures aroused an empathetic response from his viewers, the juxtaposition of incompatible manners of representation also made his work seem strange and preposterous. However, Chen's visual laments were derived from poems and historical anecdotes. The author argues...

... instructed Li Bai 李白 (701–762) to compose the poem “To the Tune of Qingping” (Qingping diao 清平調). 40 An adherent of Wang Shizhen's 王士禛 (1634–1711) poetic theory of “spirit resonance” ( shenyun 神韻) and Zhao Zhishen's 趙執信 (1662–1744) technical approach to prosody, Hong Sheng won acclaim for his own shi 詩...

...] more than ten days Gaozu prepared to leave, and the elders of Pei earnestly entreated him to stay. 10 Integral to the feast is a performance that forms the cornerstone of the historical account, with the Han emperor authoring, directing, and singing a poem recalling his rise to power...

.... Nonetheless, direct criticism aimed at those in power is a fool's errand. Instead, critiques of power have often taken the guise of history, culture, and tradition. One can indirectly register grievances. This is why so many Chinese essays trace the causes of China's current problems, often described in terms...