The Book of Songs (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Book of Songs Sunday, August 2 2009.

• One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs (Shijing) is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs left from antiquity. Where the other Confucian classics treat “outward things: deeds, moral precepts, the way the world works,” as Stephen Owen tells us in his foreword, The Book of Songs is “the classic of the human heart and the human mind.”

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Book of Songs Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: Arthur Waley: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Book of Songs Friday, July 17 2009.

• The Book of Songs opens with the youngest and most celebrated part of the collection: "The Airs of the States" (Guo feng).