The Works of Li Qingzhao, Prose 2.1 through 2.5

[x_los]

After a delay in which I came down with various interesting illnesses, we return 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). This week we're reading the prose chapter: 2.1 through 2.5, 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: 2.1 詞論 On Song Lyrics

[x_los]

Re note 2, that’s an interesting shi jing fact I did not know

How do you peel apart a bean? Like a pod, or? What is up?

Tbh this feels like an evenhanded evaluation of pros and cons of writers, if a bit spicy. Not too bitchy.

Re: 2.1 詞論 On Song Lyrics

[superborb]

The Baike gloss for the line about the melon and bean is 'appearance of all split up and in pieces' (an idiom). I think the word that is translated as 'peeled apart' is more directly 'cut open' though.