A comprehensive anthology of Chinese poetry from the 12th century B.C. to the present.

"This magnificent collection has the effect of a complete library rather than of an anthology of poetry.... A lyric quality comes through into our own language... Every page is alive with striking and wonderful things, immediately accessible." Publishers Weekly

"Sunflower Splendor is the largest and, on the whole, best anthology of translated Chinese poems to have appeared in a Western language." The New York Times Book Review

"This remarkably fine anthology should remain standard for a...

..". the most comprehensive book of translation of this period in any Western language." --Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association

..". a welcome addition to the repository of translated Chinese poetry.... highly readable." --World Literature Today

..". a mega-project... an impressive achievement of scholarship." --Journal of Asian Studies

..". an outstanding anthology of Ch'ing poetry... It must be recommended whole-heartedly to students and teachers alike." --Eugen Feifel, Monumenta Serica