A Collection of Chinese Lyrics : Rendered into Verse by Alan Ayling from translations of the Chinese by Duncan Mackintosh

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This book, first published in 1965, covers a period of one thousand years and collects together some of the best examples of Chinese Lyrics (tz'u). The Chinese original of each poem faces the English and is written in a Chinese scholar's distinguished calligraphy. Appendices provide social, cultural and historical background.