How to Read Chinese Poetry A Guided Anthology

m a jor a s P e C t s oF C H i ne s e P oe t ry 9

features mini-sequences of narration or description, sometimes smoothly blended
together and sometimes with abrupt breaks between them (C5.1–7).

Having highlighted the major aspects of Chinese poetry, I shall stop here and
let readers begin their own journey of discovery in the great world of Chinese
poetry.
Zong-qi Cai

note

1. Sao-style poems composed after the Han are more often than not subsumed under the fu
   genre and given the name sao-style fu (sao ti fu).

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