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This week we start working with Li Qingzhao’s ci poetry. As usual, the book is 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). We're reading the poems 3.1 through 3.8 inclusive.

This collection uses footnotes and endnotes to explicate the work. There are three endnotes for this week’s group of poems, but these aren’t very rich in exegesis.


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

Date: 2022-01-29 07:09 am (UTC)

Re: 3.7

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I guess when you’re drowning your sorrows about your fallen homeland in alcohol.....probably necessariy
it’s the agarwood perfume as usual!
Date: 2022-01-29 09:28 pm (UTC)

Re: 3.7

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I would not think that sun being weak was associated with being warm and pleasant, but sure, Baike. I guess context from the poem says it must be a positive adjective.

Baike says some say the plum blossom could also be the plum blossom makeup, but its first gloss of 'spring plums inserted at the temples' seems more logical. Though I guess either technically works, since the makeup could also be ruined.

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