CANTO LV – REFERENCES

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS AND COLLECTIONS

1. Hu Lin. “A Tale of Five Capitals: Contests For Legitimacy Between The Liao And Its Rivals.” Journal of Asian History 44.2 (2010): 99-127.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND SECTIONS

1. Chen, J.W. “The Golden Mirror.” In The poetics of Sovereignty: on Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2010. 
2. Chin, Annping, tr., ed. “Notes” to: Confucius. The Analects. London: Penguin, 2014
3. Fang, Achilles. “Materials for the Study of Pound’s Cantos.” 4 vols. Diss. Harvard U, 1958. Vol I: 124-33.
4. Grosseteste, Robert. Die philosophischen Werke des Robert Grosseteste, Bischofs von Lincoln.Herausgegeben von Wilhelm Baur. Münster: Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1912. Internet Archive.
5. Moody, David A. Ezra Pound: Poet. A Portrait of the Man and His Work. II: The Epic Years 1921-1939. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 279-80.
6. Liebregts, Peter. Ezra Pound and Neoplatonism. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson, 2004.
7. Nolde, John. “Canto LV.” In Blossoms from the East. The China Cantos of Ezra Pound. Orono: National Poetry Foundation 1983. 188-246.
8. Qian, Zhaoming (2003), The Modernist Response to Chinese Art: Pound, Moore, Stevens, Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press. 8-12; 48-9; 62.
9. Pound, Ezra. Literary Essays. Ed. T. S. Eliot. New York: New Directions, 1968.
10. Terrell, Carroll F. “Canto LV.” In Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound.” Berkeley: U of California P., 1980. I: 227-35.

DIGITAL RESOURCES

1. “Diyu.” Wikipedia. Accessed 4 January 2026.
2. “Emperors of the Tang Dynasty.” Travelchinaguide.com.
3. “Political History of the Song Period.” ChinaKnowledge.de. Accessed 4 January 2026.
4. Preda, Roxana. Online Companion to the Cantos of Ezra Pound. Cantos 20, 36, 41, 43, 53, 54. The Cantos Project, Accessed 4 January 2026.
5. Soth, Amelia. “Elixirs of Immortal Life Were a Deadly Obsession, ironically enough.” JStor Daily, 28 December 2018. Accessed 4 January 2026. 

ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Ian Kiu. Map of five dynasties and ten kingdoms, 923.AD. Map, 7 November 2007. Wikipedia.

2. Wang Anshi. Stone statue in Chaohu, Anhui. gonanjingchina.com.

3. Sima Guang. Scroll, ink and colour on paper. Taipei: National Palace Museum. Wikimedia Commons. 

4. “Emperor Zhenzong of Song.” Ink on silk scroll, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). Taipei: National Palace Museum. Wikimedia Commons, accessed 4 January 2026.

5. Zhang Zeduan (1085-1145). Along the River During the Qingming Festival. Scroll detail. Beijing: Palace Museum.

6. Wang Anshi. Ink on paper, Qing Dynasty. Portraits from the Nanxun Hall. Beijing: National Museum of China. Wikimedia Commons. Accessed 4 January 2026.

7. Zuo Quiming. Album of Busts of Sages and Worthies, formerly in the Nanxun Hall collection, now in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.

8. Zhou Dunyi. Statue in the Yuanmingyuan [Beijing, old Summer Palace]. Wikimedia Commons. Accessed 4 January 2026.

9. “The Song Dynasty and Its Rivals.” [Map]. “China in 1000 CE.” AFE. Easia.columbia.edu. Accessed 4 January 2026.

10. Map of the Liao Empire 1111 AD. Map, 16 July 2017. Wikimedia Commons. 

11. Map of the Song Dynasty, 960-1279. Chinasage.info. Accessed 4 January 2026.