Du Fu's conspicuous negativity and Li Bai's hidden positivity: a sentiment comparison and exploration.
In the studies of classical Chinese poetry, the comparison between Li Bai and Du Fu is an everlasting topic, yielding many qualitative interpretations, among which a widely known but disputable one is Li's positivity versus Du's negativity. With the development of digital means, distant reading has...
| Published in: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 280 - 296 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2024
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