#ChineseLiterature#ChinesePoetry folk, has anyone got a recommendation for books/articles about the #Shijing? I’m back reading the Waley translation and greatly enjoying it, but I’d love some more context, both on the history and on the commentaries that have informed the translation choices.
@villainousfriend I don’t know much about it other than it’s a collection of poems from the Western Zhou Dynasty and that it’s held in high esteem by Confucianists who idealized the western zhou period. Confucius praised Shijing for 思無邪, meaning that it’s pure, sincere, and unclouded by pretentiousness.
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