The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Transcultural Performance - American Guqin Artist at Lingnan: Tang Poetry and Guqin Music

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How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast

Zong-qi Cai, Lingnan University

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This podcast presents cutting-edge scholarship on Chinese poetry to a broad general audience. In its 52 episodes, leading experts guide listeners through a pleasurable journey of Chinese poetry, poem by poem, genre by genre, and dynasty by dynasty. They demonstrate how the selected poems work in Chinese to create a fascinating, untranslatable poetic beauty while illuminating their broader cultural significance. Poems are read aloud in English and Chinese to the background of the Chinese qin music. English translations, romanizations, and brief notes are provided at howtoreadchinesepoetry.com.

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The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Transcultural Performance - American Guqin Artist at Lingnan: Tang Poetry and Guqin Music

How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast

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2 years ago

The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Transcultural Performance - American Guqin Artist at Lingnan: Tang Poetry and Guqin Music

This podcast you are listening to is the soundtrack of the 9th episode of HOW TO READ CHINESE POETRY VIDEOS.

John Thompson, the best-known performer of early music for the Chinese guqin zither, has since 1976 reconstructed over 200 melodies from 15th to 17th century sources and given numerous solo performances worldwide. His website, www.silkqin.com, the most comprehensive source of information on this subject, receives thousands of hits daily. In 2019 a two-hour documentary about his guqin work was released. In this episode, the American guqin artist plays several tunes related to Tang Poetry and shares his reflections upon the Qin Poetry and Song.

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