玉台新詠 by Ling Xu

"玉台新詠" by Xu Ling is an anthology compiled around the early to mid-530s during the Southern dynasties period. This collection contains 670 poems by over 115 poets, including 14 women, focused on romantic and semi-erotic "palace style" verse. The anthology explores themes of love, beauty, and gender roles through poems about desire and relationships. Likely compiled as reading material for palace ladies, it ranges from anonymous Han Dynasty ballads to contemporary works, celebrating feminine beauty while also including matter-of-fact homoerotic verses. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Editor Xu, Ling, 507-583
Title 玉台新詠
Alternate Title Yu Tai Xin Yong
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Songs_from_the_Jade_Terrace
Credits Produced by Neiing Young
Language Chinese
LoC Class PL: Language and Literatures: Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
Subject Chinese poetry -- 220-589
Subject Chinese poetry -- Qin and Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D.
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