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Author : Ronald C. Miao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Poets, Chinese
ISBN : UCSC:32106013568750
Author : Wendy Swartz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170951
"In a formative period of Chinese culture, early medieval writers made extensive use of a diverse set of resources, in which such major philosophical classics as Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Classic of Changes featured prominently. Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry examines how these writers understood and manipulated a shared intellectual lexicon to produce meaning. Focusing on works by some of the most important and innovative poets of the period, this book explores intertextuality—the transference, adaptation, or rewriting of signs—as a mode of reading and a condition of writing. It illuminates how a text can be seen in its full range of signifying potential within the early medieval constellation of textual connections and cultural signs.If culture is that which connects its members past, present, and future, then the past becomes an inherited and continually replenished repository of cultural patterns and signs with which the literati maintains an organic and constantly negotiated relationship of give and take. Wendy Swartz explores how early medieval writers in China developed a distinctive mosaic of ways to participate in their cultural heritage by weaving textual strands from a shared and expanding store of literary resources into new patterns and configurations."
Author : Yue Zhang
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438486932
Lore and Verse is the first English-language book dedicated entirely to studying poems on history (yongshi shi) in premodern China. Focusing on works by poets from the entire range of early medieval China (220–589), Yue Zhang explores how history was disseminated and interpreted through poetry, as well as how and why certain historical figures were commemorated in poetry. In writing poems on history, poets retrospectively crafted their own identities through their celebration of historical figures, and they prospectively fortified a continuous lineage for transmitting their values and reputation to future generations. This continuous tradition of cultural memory informs a poet's reception of historical figures, which in turn shapes that tradition through further intertextual connections. Lore and Verse questions the sweeping generalization of early medieval Chinese poetry as consisting mainly of exuberant images and an ornamental style—an inaccurate characterization repeated by later historians and literary critics—and it provides translations, close readings, and analyses of selected poems on history that will be useful for students, instructors, and general readers interested in premodern Chinese literature and culture.
Author : Alan K. L. Chan,Yuet-Keung Lo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438432199
Covering a time of great intellectual ferment and great influence on what was to come, this book explores the literary and hermeneutic world of early medieval China. In addition to profound political changes, the fall of the Han dynasty allowed new currents in aesthetics, literature, interpretation, ethics, and religion to emerge during the Wei-Jin Nanbeichao period. The contributors to this volume present developments in literature and interpretation during this era from a variety of methodological perspectives, frequently highlighting issues hitherto unremarked in Western or even Chinese and Japanese scholarship. These include the rise of new literary and artistic values as the Han declined, changing patterns of patronage that helped reshape literary tastes and genres, and new developments in literary criticism. The religious changes of the period are revealed in the literary self-presentation of spiritual seekers, the influence of Daoism on motifs in poetry, and Buddhist influences on both poetry and historiography. Traditional Chinese literary figures, such as the fox and the ghost, receive fresh analysis about their particular representation during this period.
Author : TImothy Wai Keung Chan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789004229020
This book focuses on the representation of human mortality in early medieval Chinese literature. This theme is observed and reconstructed through the contextual and intertextual analysis of the work of eminent writers of the period, texts that have never been examined from an eschatological perspective. Through this perspective, and the careful use of research from the fields of religion and anthropology, the book offers a fresh view of commentator Wang Yi (fl. 89–158), well-known poets Ruan Ji (210–63), Tao Qian (365?–427), and Xie Lingyun (385–433), and also brings into the discussion relevant works by several previously neglected authors. The book contributes a new angle from which to appreciate literature of this and other periods in Chinese history.
Author : Donald Holzman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429761508
First published in 1998, the papers in this second volume by Donald Holzman are concerned with the themes of religion and poetry and song in early medieval China. Religion is to the fore in the first two sections, dealing with Daoist immortals and their cult, as reflected in poetic works of the first three centuries ad, with songs used in religious ceremonies, and with the origins and history of the cold food festival. The last group of articles includes a major study of the poems of Ji Kang (223-262) as well as other poetry of the 4th-5th centuries, and an analysis of the changing image of the merchant from the 4th to the 9th centuries.
Author : Wendy Swartz,Robert Ford Campany,Yang Lu,Jessey Choo
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231531009
This innovative sourcebook builds a dynamic understanding of China's early medieval period (220–589) through an original selection and arrangement of literary, historical, religious, and critical texts. A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw the longest stretch of political fragmentation in China's imperial history, resulting in new ethnic configurations, the rise of powerful clans, and a pervasive divide between north and south. Deploying thematic categories, the editors sketch the period in a novel way for students and, by featuring many texts translated into English for the first time, recast the era for specialists. Thematic topics include regional definitions and tensions, governing mechanisms and social reality, ideas of self and other, relations with the unseen world, everyday life, and cultural concepts. Within each section, the editors and translators introduce the selected texts and provide critical commentary on their historical significance, along with suggestions for further reading and research.
Author : Fusheng Wu
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0791473708
Explores both the literary features and historical context of poetry written for imperial rulers during China’s early medieval period.
Author : Anne Birrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X006197924
Author : Victor H. Mair,Zhenjun Zhang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781350337237
Bathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions of ancient peoples, poems of mourning and texts of lament stand out in classical Chinese literature as brilliant and unique. Composed and celebrated over 3000 years, they are central to the Chinese literary tradition but have been largely unknown to English readers. Including over 100 major pieces by leading literary figures from 800 BCE 1800, this is the first English anthology of classic Chinese poems of mourning and texts of sacrificial offering. With annotated translations by leading scholars and reading guides accompanying each piece, this book reveals a powerful literary heritage to students and serious readers of Chinese literature, history and civilization.
Author : TImothy Wai Keung Chan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789004222090
This book focuses on the representation of human mortality in medieval Chinese literature. This theme is observed and reconstructed through analysis of the work of eminent writers of the period, texts that have never been examined from an eschatological perspective.
Author : Paul W. Kroll,David R. Knechtges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : China
ISBN : UCSC:32106019253381
Author : David R. Knechtges,Taiping Chang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004191273
The long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide, this work offers a wealth of information on writers, genres, literary schools and terms of the Chinese literary tradition from earliest times to the seventh century C.E.
Author : Zornica Kirkova
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004313699
This book examines representations of Daoist xian immortality in a broad range of versified literature from the Han until the end of the Six Dynasties and explores the complex interaction between poetry and Daoist religion in early medieval China.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789004282063
Nine renowned sinologists present a range of studies that display the riches of medieval Chinese verse in varied guises. All major verse-forms, including shi, fu, and ci, are examined, with a special focus on poetry’s negotiation with tradition and historical context. Dozens of previously untranslated works are here rendered in English for the first time, and readers will enter a literary culture that was deeply infused with imperatives of wit, learning, and empathy. Among the diverse topics met with in this volume are metaphysical poetry as a medium of social exchange, the place of ruins in Chinese poetry, the reality and imaginary of frontier borderlands, the enigma of misattribution, and how a 19th-century Frenchwoman discovered Tang poetry for the Western world. Contributors include Timothy Wai Keung Chan, Robert Joe Cutter, Ronald Egan, David R. Knechtges, Paul W. Kroll, Stephen Owen, Wendy Swartz, Ding Xiang Warner, and Pauline Yu.