Si yin zhai hui ke Song Yuan san shi yi jia ci ???????????? [Lyrics by Thirty-One Masters of the Song and Yuan, Assembled and Published by the Studio of the Four Kinds of Self-Cultivation]

WANG, Pengyun ???, ed

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Four vols. Small 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. stitching. [China]: Siyin zhai ???, [1893?]. Lyrics, or ci (tz u) ? poetry, was "one of the major poetic genres in China." Pieces in this genre were "originally song text[s] set to existing musical tunes." The genre "emerged in the T ang dynasty in response to the popularity of foreign musical tunes newly imported from Central Asia" (The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, vol. 1, 846-49). The genre is in particular associated with the Song dynasty. Writers covered in our collection include Song official Li Mixun ??? (1085-1153) and Liu Bingzhong ??? (1216-74), whose talents were recognized by Khubilai Khan and died in Xanadu in Inner Mongolia. There is a Preface by official, writer, and library administrator Miu Quansun ??? (1844-1919) dated 1893 (guisi). Some of the works in the collection contain Prefaces and colophons. The imprint Siyin zhai [Studio of the Four Kinds of Self-Cultivation] was the studio name of Wang Pengyun ??? (1840-1904), who published our book. Fine set. See WorldCat 55878389. Seller Inventory # 10037

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Title: Si yin zhai hui ke Song Yuan san shi yi jia ...
Binding: Soft cover