How to Read Chinese Poetry A Guided Anthology

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  1. Zhang Qi, “Han yuefu ‘Moshang sang’ xintan” (A New Study of the Han Music Bureau
    Poem “Mulberry Along the Lane”), Lanzhou xueyuan xuebao 3 (1995): 94–95.

  2. Frankel, “Some Characteristics of Oral Narrative Poetry,” 104–105.

  3. Frankel, “Some Characteristics of Oral Narrative Poetry,” 105.

  4. Birrell, “Mythmaking and Yüeh-fu,” 26–27.


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———. “Were Yüeh-fu Ever Folk Songs? Reconsidering the Relevance of Oral Theory and
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