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The Book of Songs: The Earliest Anthology of Chinese Poetry

Shijing or Shih-ching, translated as the Book of Songs or the Book of Odes, is the earliest anthology of Chinese poetry and is considered one of the Confucian classics. The Book of Songs includes 305 poems that date from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. It is divided into three parts: the ...

Emma Lu

The Book of Songs.