Playlist: Prelude to Tang Poetry: the Poetry of the Zhou and Han
Poetry of the Zhou and Han
Transcript
Robert Oxnam: Almost four hundred years of political disunity followed the fall of the Han. After China was reunified in the late sixth century, the Tang dynasty ruled China for three hundred years. Chinese poetry reached its greatest heights under the Tang, and it drew upon the themes of retreat, of nature, of history, and of personal expression first reflected in the poetry of the Zhou and Han times.
About the Speakers
Robert B. Oxnam
President Emeritus, Asia Society
Stephen Owen
James Bryant Conant University Professor; Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Paul Rouzer
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota
Marsha Wagner
Adjunct Professor of Chinese Literature, Columbia University
David D. W. Wang
Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University
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