The Works of Li Qingzhao, poems 1.6 to 1.12

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Welcome back to The Works of Li Qingzhao, freely available via De Gruyter's Library of Chinese Humanities in Mandarin and English and via several publication formats, including two open access options (the pdf appears to be better formatted than the ebook; it might be worth someone letting them know as much). This week we're reading poems 1.6 to 1.12, inclusive.

This collection uses footnotes and end notes to explicate the work. A few of this week's poems have footnotes, so look out for that.

CLP has an episode on Li Qingzhao you might find relevant.

Comments

Re: 1.6 曉夢 Dawn Dream

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Baike says she's yearning for the "free and at leisure" (idiom) world of the immortals. I think it's basically like, wow dreamt my ideal world, too bad the real world sucks.

Gloss for the autumn winds line gives the last bit as "without reason, not pleasing others, play a practical joke" -- kind of like, the autumn winds being unruly.

The immortals in this sense are more like lesser gods than the dead.