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Cantonese Love Songs
An English translation of Jiu Ji-yung's Cantonese songs of the early 19th century
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- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- + Prefaces
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Songs
- 1. Dispel your sorrows (Parts 1-2)
- 2. Choosing a true heart
- 3. Do not die
- 4. Listening to the oriole in spring
- 5. Thoughts arise
- 6. Ungenerous fate
- 7. The world of flowers
- 8. The farewell banquet
- 9. Woe is me
- 10. Infatuation
- 11. Lamenting the ill-fated (Parts 1-5)
- 12. Passion is killing me (Parts 1-6)
- 13. Flowers are ever the same (Parts 1-2)
- 14. Ill-fate and passion
- 15. It is hard to hold back my tears
- 16. The geese of the rivers Siu and Seung
- 17. Concord grass
- 18. Flowers are beautiful
- 19. How can I be patient?
- 20. This weary world
- 21. Flowers are happy
- 22. Regrets of spring
- 23. The tender moon
- 24. The heartless moon
- 25. My heart
- 26. The moon on the rim of the sky
- 27. The moon over the house
- 28. The lone-flying goose
- 29. The letter-carrying goose
- 30. The passionate geese
- 31. The region of mist and flowers (Parts 1-2)
- 32. Willow blossoms
- 33. Flowers in the mirror
- 34. Flowers shed tears
- 35. How easy it is (Parts 1-6)
- 36. The ebbing tide
- 37. Flowers fall easily
- 38. The butterfly dream
- 39. It is hard for the moon to keep its roundness
- 40. On pre-ordained fate
- 41. Repentance
- 42. Virtuous woman and passionate man
- 43. Do not be too much on fire
- 44. Detain your guest
- 45. Reassure yourself
- 46. I am waiting for you
- 47. A lament for ‘Autumn Joy’
- 48. Wounded spring
- 49. The flirting butterfly
- 50. The lamp moth
- 51. Long dreams
- 52. Do not dream
- 53. The bonds of love
- 54. The tree of love
- 55. The love knot
- 56. The tears of parting (Parts 1-3)
- 57. Unfeeling words
- 58. Unfeeling eyes
- 59. Songs without feeling
- 60. The debt of three lives
- 61. The single-hearted palm tree
- 62. Unending
- 63. Facing the weeping willow
- 64. Hearing the cry of the goose
- 65. Born beautiful
- 66. Not all that beautiful
- 67. Why are you so thin?
- 68. My darling
- 69. No easy task
- 70. Half a life's bitterness
- 71. It is hard to conduct oneself
- 72. Utterly helpless
- 73. Sent far away
- 74. Spring-flowers-autumn-moon (Parts 1-4)
- 75. The one word ‘passion’
- 76. The passionate willow (Parts 1-2)
- 77. The sorrow I cannot dispel
- 78. In the depths of sorrow
- 79. What is the best thing to do? (Parts 1-2)
- 80. Only one body
- 81. Do not be afraid of ungenerous fate
- 82. Lamenting the shortness of life
- 83. Unhurt by the wind
- 84. The cable of love
- 85. Lovesickness
- 86. Soul-dissolving willow
- 87. The region of mist and flowers
- 88. The mandarin drake and duck
- 89. The fan
- 90. Knitting the silken fabric
- 91. Facing the lonely lamp
- 92. The peach-blossom fan
- 93. The waves at the prow
- 94. Hearing the cawing of the crow
- 95. Dressing the hair
- 96. Paying the flower-debt
- 97. Burn pure oil
- + Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
This collection of 97 Cantonese love songs aims to give a wider audience the opportunity of reading these songs in English. The author investigates the language and social background of the songs and provides cross-references to Chinese and Western litera
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Publication year : 2010
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Times read: 49
