Fifty Songs from the Yüan: Fifty Songs from the Yüan: Poetry of 13th Century China (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032248851)

This book, first published in 1967, gives us a rich sampling of ch'ü, the characteristic poem of the time of Yüan, when China was under Mongol rule. The ch'ü was a popular form of poetry in the sense that although it was written by literati, they wrote in the vernacular rather than in Classical Chinese.