The Poet Zheng Zhen (1806-1864) and the Rise of Chinese Modernity

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The Poet Zheng Zhen (1806-1864) and the Rise of Chinese Modernity is written by Jerry D. Schmidt and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004252290 (ISBN 10) and 9789004252295 (ISBN 13).

In The Poet Zheng Zhen (1806-1864) and the Rise of Chinese Modernity, J. D. Schmidt provides the first detailed study in a Western language of one of China's greatest poets and explores the nineteenth-century background to Chinese modernity, challenging the widely held view that this is largely of Western origin. The volume contains a study of Zheng's life and times, an examination of his thought and literary theory, and four chapters studying his highly original contributions to poetry on the human realm, nature verse, narrative poetry, and the poetry of ideas, including his writings on science and technology. Over a hundred pages of translations of his verse conclude the work.