Chinese Songs in a French Key: How Judith Gautier's Book of Jade Introduced Europe to Chinese Poetry by Pauline Yu

Chinese Songs in a French Key: How Judith Gautier's Book of Jade Introduced Europe to Chinese Poetry

Pauline Yu

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In early 1867, a book of poems stunned the French literary world. Titled The Book of Jade, it featured Chinese calligraphy and named ancient Chinese poets as sources, leaving readers uncertain whether the collection was a translation or a French a...

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