Chinese Narrative PoetryChinese Narrative Poetry brings a new perspective to some of China's best loved and most influential poems, including Ts'ai Yen's "Poem of Affliction," Po Chu yi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow," and Wei Chuang's recently discovered "Song of the Lady of Ch'in." Composed in the shih form during the Late Han, Six Dynasties, and T'ang periods, these poems stand out as masterworks of narrative art. Yet paradoxically, their narrative qualities have been