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10 March 2008
Very good
I bought this book for a Chinese Poetry class I am taking. The book offers a fairly accurate word-by-word translation for each character and a line-by-line translation. The line-by-line isn't useful because it brings out the subtleties missed by a quick skim of the words. My only is that providing the pin yin for each character would be useful for fully appreciating the complexity of the poetry. I can't give a complete review because we only use the book for its poems, not really for the introductions to the types of poetry.