The Works of Li Qingzhao, poems 1.6 to 1.12

[x_los]

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: 1.12 夜發嚴灘 Setting Out at Night from Yan Rapids

[superborb]

What footnote do you mean? I see the Yan Rapids one, but the 1.13 The Tower of Eight Odes seems correct?

No Baike entry for this one (unless I'm missing it)

Re: 1.12 夜發嚴灘 Setting Out at Night from Yan Rapids

[x_los]

“1.13
l. 4: One original touch in Li Qingzhao’s poem is that she expands the contrast with the recluse to include not only those still in officialdom (who ride the small boats in line two, on their way to new provincial assignments) to include merchants as well. At least one modern commentator (Wang Yingzhi) finds irony in Li Qingzhao’s poem, suggesting she intends to remind us that reclusion is not a respectable choice during times of dynastic crisis, and that those literati who clung to the traditional respect for recluses like Yan Ziling were misguided.”

^this bit about small boats

Re: 1.12 夜發嚴灘 Setting Out at Night from Yan Rapids

[superborb]

Ohhh I missed all the endnotes!