Qu Yuan And The Chuci

Author : Martin Kern,Stephen Owen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004679917

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Qu Yuan and the Chuci by Martin Kern,Stephen Owen Pdf

In this volume, leading scholars of early Chinese literature offer new, multi-faceted research on the ancient anthology Lyrics of Chu (Chuci). Through meticulous textual analysis, richly annotated translations, and theoretical reflection, they challenge millennia-old assumptions about China’s arch-poet Qu Yuan (ca. 300 BCE), his authorship, and the composition of the lyrics attributed to him, above all the “Li sao” (Encountering Sorrow), ancient China’s grandest poem. Thoroughly original insights into the poetics and aesthetics of Chuci poetry reopen these resplendent lyrics to a fresh appraisal of their captivating qualities and their foundational significance for the Chinese literary tradition. Contributors are: Lucas Rambo Bender, Heng Du, Michael Hunter, Martin Kern, Paul W. Kroll, Stephen Owen.

Author : Yuan Qu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780231544658

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The Songs of Chu by Yuan Qu Pdf

Sources show Qu Yuan (?340–278 BCE) was the first person in China to become famous for his poetry, so famous in fact that the Chinese celebrate his life with a national holiday called Poet's Day, or the Dragon Boat Festival. His work, which forms the core of the The Songs of Chu, the second oldest anthology of Chinese poetry, derives its imagery from shamanistic ritual. Its shaman hymns are among the most beautiful and mysterious liturgical works in the world. The religious milieu responsible for their imagery supplies the backdrop for his most famous work, Li sao, which translates shamanic longing for a spirit lover into the yearning for an ideal king that is central to the ancient philosophies of China. Qu Yuan was as important to the development of Chinese literature as Homer was to the development of Western literature. This translation attempts to replicate what the work might have meant to those for whom it was originally intended, rather than settle for what it was made to mean by those who inherited it. It accounts for the new view of the state of Chu that recent discoveries have inspired.

Author : Qu Yuan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141971261

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The Songs of the South by Qu Yuan Pdf

The Songs of the South is an anthology first compiled in the second century A.D. Its poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, are grouped under seventeen titles and contain all that we know of Chinese poetry's ancient beginnings. The earliest poems were composed in the fourth century B.C. and almost half of them are traditionally ascribed to Qu Yuan.

Author : Qu Yuan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0140448918

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Songs of the South by Qu Yuan Pdf

First compiled in the second century AD, The Songs of the South contains ancient poems from one of the two great traditions in chinese poetry. These poems illuminate the Chinese poet's way of looking at the world, his vocabulary of images, and the various assumptions he makes.

Author : Constance A. Cook,John S. Major
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824829050

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Defining Chu by Constance A. Cook,John S. Major Pdf

Defining Chu begins with an overview of the historical geography, an outline of archaeological evidence for Chu history, and an appreciation of Chu art. Following chapters examine issues of state and society: the ideology of the ruling class, legal procedures, popular culture, and daily life. The final section surveys Chu religion and literature and includes an analysis of the Chuci, the great anthology of Chu poetry, and its impact on mainstream Chinese literature. A translation of the Chu Silk Manuscript¿ is appended. This document has intrigued scholars since its discovery in Changsha some sixty years ago. The inclusion of this rare and difficult text, available for the first time in an effective and accessible translation, will make this volume indispensable to students and scholars of early Chinese history and thought.

Author : Hanmo Zhang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501505195

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Authorship and Text-making in Early China by Hanmo Zhang Pdf

This book is a timely response to a rather urgent call to seek an updated methodology in rereading and reappraising early Chinese texts in light of newly discovered early writings. For a long time, the concept of authorship in the formation and transmission of early Chinese texts has been misunderstood. The nominal author who should mainly function as a guide to text formation and interpretation is considered retrospectively as the originator and writer of the text. This book illustrates that although some notions about the text as the author’s property began to appear in some Eastern Han texts, a strict correlation between the author and the text results from later conceptions of literary history. Before the modern era, there existed a conceptual gap between an author and a writer. A pre-modern Chinese text could have had both an author and a writer, or even multiple authors and multiple writers. This work is the first study addressing these issues by more systematically emphasizing the connection of the text, the author, and the religious and sociopolitical settings in which these issues were embedded. It is expected to constitute a palpable contribution to Chinese studies and the discipline of philology in general

Author : Geng Song
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9622096204

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The Fragile Scholar by Geng Song Pdf

The Fragile Scholar examines the pre-modern construction of Chinese masculinity from the popular image of the fragile scholar (caizi) in late imperial Chinese fiction and drama. The book is an original contribution to the study of the construction of masculinity in the Chinese context from a comparative perspective (Euro-American). Its central thesis is that the concept of "masculinity" in pre-modern China was conceived in the network of hierarchical social and political power in a homosocial context rather than in opposition to "woman." In other words, gender discourse was more power-based than sex-based in pre-modern China, and Chinese masculinity was androgynous in nature. The author explains how the caizi discourse embodied the mediation between elite culture and popular culture by giving voice to the desire, fantasy, wants and tastes of urbanites.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Chinese poetry
ISBN : 7508522044

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楚辞 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wilt L. Idema,Wai-yee Li,Stephen H. West
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780231557719

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A Topsy-Turvy World by Wilt L. Idema,Wai-yee Li,Stephen H. West Pdf

Playwriting in many forms flourished during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Shorter theatrical genres in particular offered playwrights opportunities for experimentation with both dramatic form and social critique. Despite their originality and wit, these short plays have been overshadowed by the lengthy masterpieces of the southern drama tradition. A Topsy-Turvy World presents English translations of shorter sixteenth-to-eighteenth-century plays, spotlighting a lesser-known side of Chinese drama. Satirical and often earthy, these mostly one-act plays depict deceit, dissembling, reversed gender roles, and sudden upending of fortunes. With zest and humor, they portray henpecked husbands, supercilious and lustful monks, all-too-human sage kings, disgruntled officials, and overreaching young scholars. These plays provide a glimpse of Chinese daily life and mores even as they question or subvert the boundaries of social, moral, and political order. Each translation is preceded by a short introduction that describes the play’s author, context, formal qualities, and textual history. A Topsy-Turvy World offers a new view of a significant period in the development of the Chinese theatrical tradition and provides insight into the role of drama as cultural critique.

Author : Nicholas Morrow Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-27
Category : Chinese poetry
ISBN : 9780198818311

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Elegies of Chu by Nicholas Morrow Williams Pdf

Elegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chinese poetry. Because the elegies contain passionate expressions of political protest as well as shamanistic themes of magic spells and wandering spirits, they present an alternative face of early Chinese culture; one that does not align with orthodox Confucianism. This translation employs literary English devices in order to emphasise the original structure of these Chinese poems. It also examines the extraordinarily vivid diction of the source texts, including of onomatopoeia, ornate descriptions, exotic flowers, dramatic landscapes, metaphors and startling similes. This translation will be based on the original anthology compiled in the Han dynasty by Wang Yi (2nd century CE), and contains a selection of poems that were collected from the 3rd century BCE through the Han dynasty. The anthology provides readers with an understanding of Chinese literature and its evolution from free-spirited, mythico-religious songs to the more formal, polished style of the Han court.

Author : Paula M. Varsano
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780824865276

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Tracking the Banished Immortal by Paula M. Varsano Pdf

Li Bo (701-762) has long inspired controversy among readers and critics. Known even during his lifetime as the "Banished Immortal," he continues to spark imaginations and challenge passionately held convictions about poetic values. In this lucid and gracefully written volume, Paula Varsano presents the first full-length study of Li Bo in English in half a century and the first extended look at the poet's critical reception. Persuaded that the essence of his poetry lay well beyond the reach of the usual modes of study and description, readers from the ninth to the twentieth century developed a particularly dynamic critical language. Varsano shows how this language, evolving out of the critical concepts of "emptiness" and "substance," answered the need to conceptualize shifting parameters of poetic creativity over hundreds of years. At the same time, she offers an account of Li Bo's entry into the canon and asks how this in turn transformed both the reception of his work and the transmission of his poetic persona. This story of Li Bo's critical reception and canonization is propelled by the malleable and elusive ideal of the "ancient." And so, Varsano devotes the second part of her study to the poems themselves, investigating those poetic manifestations of ancientness that translated into the enduring figure of the Banished Immortal.

Author : David Hawkes
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9622013546

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Classical, Modern, and Humane by David Hawkes Pdf

A collection of essays, originally published between 1955 and 1983.

Author : The Editorial Committee of Chinese Civilization: A Source Book, City University of Hong Kong
Publisher : City University of HK Press
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789629371401

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China by The Editorial Committee of Chinese Civilization: A Source Book, City University of Hong Kong Pdf

Written with precision and flair by a host of leading academics from Beijing and Hong Kong, this single volume is a welcome addition to the study of world civilizations, a broad yet detailed chronological sweep through time. Every aspect of Chinese civilization is explained, interpreted, contextualized and brought to life with well-balanced commentary and photographic documentation. Published by City University of Hong Kong Press. 香港城市大學出版社出版。

Author : TImothy Wai Keung Chan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789004229020

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Considering the End: Mortality in Early Medieval Chinese Poetic Representation by TImothy Wai Keung Chan Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047444664

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Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (Vol. I) by Anonim Pdf

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. Indispensable for scholars and students of pre-modern Chinese literature, history, and thought. Part One contains A to R.