Songs from Xanadu: Studies in Mongol Dynasty Song-Poetry (San-ch'u)…

The reasoned, and to mind completely right attack on modern translators who excuse themselves for not rhyming either because chinese has too much rhyme for english to match or because they are modernists who think rhyme dates poetry, is itself worth the price of the book. How wonderful to have a playful professor with the guts to rhyme. I borrowed a ribald poem with the word "meat-stick" in it, to drum out the last chapter of my Orientalism & Occidentalism -- Is the Mistranslation of Culture Inevitable?" His smaller "Song-poems from Xanadu" are also delightful. I wish he were still here with us.