This volume presents twelve essays on the evolution of shih poetry from the second to the tenth century, the period that began with the sudden flowering of shih poetry in live-character meter and culminated in the T'ang, the golden age of classical Chinese poetry.
Originally published in 1987.
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- ISBN10 0691031347
- ISBN13 9780691031347
- Publish Date 21 January 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 September 1997
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 426
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/2504.html