# Ch'ing, a Chinese Book of Love. From Early Times to the Modern Age

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- Authors: [John Minford](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-minford)
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- ISBN: 978-18-3639-194-4
- Pages: 412
- Published: 2026-01-01
- Language: pl_PL
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

This landmark anthology brings together, for the first time in English, the rich tradition of Chinese writing on love - sensuous, romantic and ecstatic - from early classics like the Book of Songs to twentieth-century modernist verse. Challenging the stereotype of Chinese literature as stiffly...