The Jade Mountain

THE JADE MOUNTAIN

EDITED BY EUNICE TIETIENS

POETRY OF THE ORIENT

An Anthology

(1928)

TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR WALEY

170 CHINESE POEMS

(1919)

MORE TRANSLATIONS FROM THE CHINESE

(1919)

BY WITTER BYNNER

SELECTED POEMS

(1936)

The Jade Mountain

A CHINESE ANTHOLOGY Being Three Hundred Poems of the T'ang Dynasty

618 - 906

Translated

by

WITTER BYNNER

from the texts of

KIANG KANG-HU

NEW YORK

·

ALFRED A. KNOPF

·

MCMXLV

CORYRIGHT 1920, 1021, 1922, 1923, 1924,

1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, AND 1929 BY

ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

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First and Second Printings
before Publication
Published October, 1929
Third Printing January, 1930
Fourth Printing March, 1931
Fifth Printing January, 1939
Sixth Printing November, 1945

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

WE JOIN

IN DEDICATING OUR TRANSLATIONS

TO

ALBERT M. BENDER

"Literature endures like the universal spirit,
And its breath becomes a part of the vitals of all men."
LI SHANG-YIN

CONTENTS

Poetry and culture by Witter Bynner		xi
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Chinese poetry by Dr. Kiang Kang-hu		xix
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Translations		3
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Appendices
A.	Historical chronology	221
B.	Chronology of the poets	225
C.	Topography	229
D.	Notes on the poems	238
E.	Acknowledgments	278
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Indices		283

Much of Witter Bynner's time has been spent in travel and a great deal of that travel has taken him to China. There he laid the foundations for his magnificent collection of Chinese art and acquired the comprehension of Chinese poetry which has made him perhaps its foremost exponent in the Occidental world. This book is the result of a decade of intense labour during which Mr. Bynner, in collaboration with the distinguished scholar, Dr. Kiang Kang-Hu, revised and studied and polished these 311 poems until every shade of their meaning had been rendered into English verse of a quality comparable to the original.

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electrotyped, printed and bound by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass.

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