Based on first-hand historical materials, this book explores the various aspects of literary communication during the Song Dynasty in China. The book investigat
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Contains more than 2,000 entries that supply information on the mythological, historical, geographical, and literary references contained in western art song. T
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Author Patrick Bentley challenges his readers to labor for the meat that will never perish in his new book The Birth of a Song. Many years of trials in Patricks