“Landun Shiyong” (Ten Verses on London): An Anonymous Chinese Collection of Poems of the Beginning of the XIX Century

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Keywords: Landun shiyong; Chinese poetry; Qing China; J. F. Davis; K. F. A. Gutzlaff

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Volchkova E.V. “Landun Shiyong” (Ten Verses on London): An Anonymous Chinese Collection of Poems of the Beginning of the XIX Century. // Lomonosov Oriental Studies Journal. 2021. N 3, p.150–160

Volchkova E.V.

Abstract

The article presents an annotated translation of the anonymous Chinese collection “Landun Shiyong” (Ten Verses on London), the first known poetic description of London in Chinese.