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Qiu Wei, Qiwu Qian, Chang Jian, Cen Can, Yuan Jie, Wei Yingwu, Liu [ j j > Zongyuan, and Meng Jiao nj{

g The Tang Dynasty (618 to 907) was a golden age of Chinese culture: religion and

g philosophy, painting and calligraphy, sculpture, architecture and music all reached peaks ^

°- of perfection. Poetry was the epitome of the arts: a scholastic requirement, a route to

c? fame, a moulder of character. Nearly 50,000 poems of the Tang have survived. The

ro collection 'Three Hundred Tang Poems' was compiled around 1763. It comprises six

"g volumes, with poems grouped by verse form. Volume 1 covers the 'ancient verse' style in

-q five-character lines (poems 1 to 35), and 'folk song style verse' (36 to 45). The masters Li

£ Bai, Du Fu and Wang Wei are well represented here. 3

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0) Recordings in this volume are in Cantonese, Hokkien, Mandarin and Taiwanese, as S indicated in the titles; some are spoken, others are sung. (Summary by David Barnes)

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