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An age of poetry.(The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century )(Book review)

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The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860), by Stephen Owen; Harvard University Press, 2006, US$59.95.

THE LATE TANG brings to conclusion Stephen Owen's overview of the major changes, vicissitudes, and codification that poetry underwent during the Tang dynasty (618-907). Along with his two proceeding titles The Poetry of the Early T'ang and The Great Age of Chinese Poetry: The High T'ang (1977 and 1981 respectively) the trilogy serves as a literary history to what is commonly regarded as the golden age of Chinese poetry.

The re-unification and expansion of China during the Tang dynasty, along with the revival of the civil service ...

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