Gao Bing (高棅, 1350 to 1423) flourished during the Ming Dynasty[1] (1368–1644) as an author and poetry theorist. Gao Bing wrote the Graded Compendium of Tang Poetry (Tangshi Pinhui), the first work using prosodic principles in a systematic method to classify poetry by Classical Chinese poetry forms. It contained 5,769 poems by 620 poets, along with notes and commentary.[2] The Tangshi Pinhui aimed in part to correct what Gao Bing saw as lacking in previous works, particularly those of Song critic Yan Yu and Yuan critic Yang Shihong. Other works would later build upon the Tangshi Pinhui system which would later greatly influence the perception of Chinese poetry: in part because of Gao Bing's explicit nine-rank grading system (similar to the nine-rank grading system of the Imperial examination system), by which he evaluated the works of poets such as Du Fu, Li Bai, and Wang Wei.[3]
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- ^ "Gao Bing's search for such cultural ideals was very much rooted in the intellectual and political climate of the early Ming, consumed as it was, having displaced the Yuan, with the need to validate its claim to power. [The founding emperor's government] sponsored a number of other codifying projects as well, and eventually adopted Gao's version of Tang poetry as the officially sanctioned one.", from "The Chinese Poetic Canon and its Boundaries", Pauline Yu, in Boundaries in China, Reaktion Books, John Hay ed., 1994, p. 119 [1]
- ^ The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 2010 [2], p. 11.
- ^ Yu, 62-64
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- Yu, Pauline (2002). "Chinese Poetry and Its Institutions", in Hsiang Lectures on Chinese Poetry, Volume 2, Grace S. Fong, editor. (Montreal: Center for East Asian Research, McGill University).
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