While I'm like DYING to read Chu Ci, I do actually want to leave that for later because am I gonna want to be slightly better at reading Chinese/have slightly more time before we tackle that? YEAH.
Anyway my vote is for 'something with a good translation' because I don't have time to like haphazardly slog through the Chinese bc the extant tl sucks. No one's fault except the...publishers? I guess? and maybe Mr Legge? idk.
I'd vote to do that 2-week Han collection as a transition, and then something a little longer: Three Hundred Tang Poems seems a good bet, but might I throw in a vote for the Four Seasons collection? We could do that after Tang for pleasant chronology, which appeals to me from a language development POV but that's not uh everyone's ideal way of doing things XD
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Date: 2021-06-30 11:24 am (UTC)Anyway my vote is for 'something with a good translation' because I don't have time to like haphazardly slog through the Chinese bc the extant tl sucks. No one's fault except the...publishers? I guess? and maybe Mr Legge? idk.
I'd vote to do that 2-week Han collection as a transition, and then something a little longer: Three Hundred Tang Poems seems a good bet, but might I throw in a vote for the Four Seasons collection? We could do that after Tang for pleasant chronology, which appeals to me from a language development POV but that's not uh everyone's ideal way of doing things XD