Ep. 220 | The History of Tang Poetry (Part 3)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Finally in this part 3 episode Laszlo gets to the Tang poetry part of the series. After finishing up some of the good stuff that came out of the Six Dynasties, we'll get a first look at the Early and High Tang periods. More poets and more great poetry compilations will also be introduced. A lot of names and titles of works this episode. Feel free to check the terms from the episode and read up on some of them. Plenty of links to translated works of Classical Chinese poetry. If this series is piquing your interest, even a little, there's a whole world out there for you to explore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome back.
1:01.2	Lausla Montgomery here, China History Podcast episode 220, the one where maybe we might get to the whole
1:09.7	raison d'etra of this series,etry in the Tang Dynasty. China's most famous period.
1:15.8	For poetry that is, the Tang was a long dynasty, almost 300 years, 618 to 907. But before we get to these glorious centuries in Chinese history,
1:28.0	let's finish things up here in the mid-third century. We left off last episode looking at the seven stages of the bamboo grove, the Joolin
1:37.0	Chisien, a model for subsequent bands of witty and talented poets and writers who stood out from the crowd and were immortalized for their individual and collective genius at their craft.
1:52.0	We've seen how things progressed from the four character
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