Download or read book The Poet-historian Qian Qianyi written by Zhixiong Yan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Yim focuses on Qian's poetic theory and practice, providing a critical study of his theory of poetic-history (shishi) and poems from the Toubi ji. He also examines the role played by history in early Qing verse, rethinking the nature of loyalism and historical memory in seventeenth-century China.