Chinese Poetry

This book is an ancient Chinese poem primer for intermediate or advanced Chinese learners who like ancient Chinese literature. There are altogether 104 poems in this book, including 73 Tang poems and 31 Song poems. Most of them are five-syllable or seven-syllable quatrains. They are short and easy to understand, read and recite. Pinyin and English annotations are provided for learners to study. This book is accompanied by an MP3.

64 selected poems from Goethe in German and Chinese.

Selected poems and excerps of poems from Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) in German and Chinese.

中国娃娃爱诗词 (Zhōngguó wáwá ài shīcí) is a beautiful picturebook for Chinese preschool children aged 2-7 years. Featuring 18 classical Chinese poems from various ages in Chinese characters and Hanyu Pinyin, accompanied by pictures of Chinese children and dolls, in a unique blend of Chinese paper cutting and folk painting. A beautiful gift with a valuable hardcover binding.

Amid Beautiful Landscapes - Chinese Poetry and Painting is a cultural reader introducing classical Chinese poetry and Chinese landscape painting. It is designed for learners of Chinese language at the elementary or intermediate level and foreigners who are interested in classical Chinese poetry and Chinese landscape painting.

This book includes one MP3-CD with recording of the classic Chinese poems in Mandarin Chinese by well-known recitation artists like Guan Shan, Zhang Jiasheng, Lin Ru or Wang Xuechun who recite the poems with great emotion and deeply moving. Simplified Chinese edition, each poem in the book includes the simplified Chinese text and Hanyu Pinyin and also annotations and explications in simplified Chinese are given.