Books by Anne Birrell

This book, first published in 1988, compiles 77 songs and ballads (yüeh-fu) of early imperial China (200 BC ¿ AD 300). Each song-text is newly translated and fully annotated and explicated.

This book, first published in 1982, was the first translation of the Chinese classic Yü-t-`ai hsin-yung ¿ the unique anthology of love poems, compiled in AD 545. Major poets are noted for their artistic achievement and their contribution to the genre, and notes explain historical events, legends, places and people.