Considering The End Mortality In Early Medieval Chinese Poetic Representation
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Considering The End Mortality In Early Medieval Chinese Poetic Representation
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Author : TImothy Wai Keung Chan
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012-05-11
Considering The End Mortality In Early Medieval Chinese Poetic Representation written by TImothy Wai Keung Chan and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-11 with Poetry categories.
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.
Roaming Into The Beyond Representations Of Xian Immortality In Early Medieval Chinese Verse
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Author : Zornica Kirkova
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-06-27
Roaming Into The Beyond Representations Of Xian Immortality In Early Medieval Chinese Verse written by Zornica Kirkova and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-27 with Religion categories.
In Roaming into the Beyond Zornica Kirkova provides the first detailed study in a Western language of Daoism-inspired themes in early medieval Chinese poetry. She examines representations of Daoist xian immortality in a broad range of versified literature from the Han until the end of the Six Dynasties, focusing on the transformations of themes, concepts, and imagery within a wide literary and religious context. Adopting a more integrated approach, the author explores both the complex interaction between poetry and Daoist religion and the interrelations between various verse forms and poetic themes. This book not only enhances our understanding of the complexities of early medieval literature but also reevaluates the place of Daoist religious thought in the intellectual life of the period.
Ancient And Early Medieval Chinese Literature Vol 3 4
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2014-09-18
Ancient And Early Medieval Chinese Literature Vol 3 4 written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
At last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E. Alphabetically organized, it contains no less than 1095 entries on major and minor writers, literary forms and "schools," and important Chinese literary terms. In addition to providing authoritative information about each subject, the compilers have taken meticulous care to include detailed, up-to-date bibliographies and source information. The reader will find it a treasure-trove of historical accounts, especially when browsing through the biographies of authors. Indispensable for scholars and students of pre-modern Chinese literature, history, and thought. Part Three contains Xia - Y. Part Four contains the Z and an extensive index to the four volumes.
Ancient And Early Medieval Chinese Literature Vol 2
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-10-10
Ancient And Early Medieval Chinese Literature Vol 2 written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
At last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E. Alphabetically organized, it contains no less than 1095 entries on major and minor writers, literary forms and "schools," and important Chinese literary terms. In addition to providing authoritative information about each subject, the compilers have taken meticulous care to include detailed, up-to-date bibliographies and source information. The reader will find it a treasure-trove of historical accounts, especially when browsing through the biographies of authors. Indispensable for scholars and students of pre-modern Chinese literature, history, and thought. Part Two contains S to Xi.
Dialogues In The Dark
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Author : Nicholas Morrow Williams
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2025-07-15
Dialogues In The Dark written by Nicholas Morrow Williams and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Dialogues in the Dark traces how Chinese readers and scholars since the Han dynasty have variously interpreted the ancient poem “Heavenly Questions” (Tianwen), an enigmatic work attributed to Qu Yuan (fl. ca. 300 BCE). Nicholas Morrow Williams analyzes how the poem’s meaning evolved in different time periods and provides three new translations.
Fantasy In The Grotto Otherworldly Adventures In Classical Chinese Literature
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Author : Timothy Wai Keung Chan
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2025-02-20
Fantasy In The Grotto Otherworldly Adventures In Classical Chinese Literature written by Timothy Wai Keung Chan and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
In a fourth-century tale, two farmers get lost in a pleasure grotto and unwittingly sever their fragile ties with the mortal world. Surprisingly, this simple cautionary fantasy spawned a complex literary tradition. The narrative instability of the tale was part of its snowballing appeal. Early in the tale’s journey through literary history, the girls met by the farmers morphed into female entertainers, Daoist priestesses, and spiritual transcendents. This malleability offered a wealth of artistic possibilities. The feature of “time dilation” and its associated dangers was also to become a flexible literary instrument and a defining feature of grotto fantasy literature.
Reading Philosophy Writing Poetry
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Author : Wendy Swartz
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-10-26
Reading Philosophy Writing Poetry written by Wendy Swartz and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with History categories.
"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."
The Poetry Demon
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Author : Jason Protass
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2021-07-31
The Poetry Demon written by Jason Protass and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-31 with Religion categories.
Chinese Buddhist monks of the Song dynasty (960–1279) called the irresistible urge to compose poetry “the poetry demon.” In this ambitious study, Jason Protass seeks to bridge the fields of Buddhist studies and Chinese literature to examine the place of poetry in the lives of Song monks. Although much has been written about verses in the gong’an (Jpn. kōan) tradition, very little is known about the large corpora—roughly 30,000 extant poems—composed by these monastics. Protass addresses the oversight by using strategies associated with religious studies, literary studies, and sociology. He weaves together poetry with a wide range of monastic sources and in doing so argues against positing a “literary Chan” movement that wrote poetry as a path to awakening; he instead presents an understanding of monks’ poetry grounded in the Song discourse of monks themselves. The work begins by examining how monks fashioned new genres, created their own books, and fueled a monastic audience for monks’ poetry. It traces the evolution of gāthā from hymns found in Buddhist scripture to an independent genre for poems associated with Chan masters as living buddhas. While Song monastic culture produced a prodigious amount of verse, at the same time it promoted prohibitions against monks’ participation in poetry as a worldly or Confucian art: This constructive tension was an animating force. The Poetry Demon highlights this and other intersections of Buddhist doctrine with literary sociality and charts productive pathways through numerous materials, including collections of Chan “recorded sayings,” monastic rulebooks, “eminent monk” and “flame record” hagiographies, manuscripts of poetry, Buddhist encyclopedia, primers, and sūtra commentary. Two chapter-length case studies illustrate how Song monks participated in two of the most prominent and conservative modes of poetry of the time, those of parting and mourning. Protass reveals how monks used Chan humor with reference to emptiness to transform acts of separation into Buddhist teachings. In another chapter, monks in mourning expressed their grief and dharma through poetry. The Poetry Demon impressively uncovers new and creative ways to study Chinese Buddhist monks’ poetry while contributing to the broader study of Chinese religion and literature.
Emperor Wu Zhao And Her Pantheon Of Devis Divinities And Dynastic Mothers
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Author : N. Harry Rothschild
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-16
Emperor Wu Zhao And Her Pantheon Of Devis Divinities And Dynastic Mothers written by N. Harry Rothschild and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-16 with Religion categories.
Wu Zhao (624–705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China as emperor over the course of its 5,000-year history. How did she—in a predominantly patriarchal and androcentric society—ascend the dragon throne? Exploring a mystery that has confounded scholars for centuries, this multifaceted history suggests that China's rich pantheon of female divinities and eminent women played an integral part in the construction of Wu Zhao's sovereignty. Wu Zhao deftly deployed language, symbol, and ideology to harness the cultural resonance, maternal force, divine energy, and historical weight of Buddhist devis, Confucian exemplars, Daoist immortals, and mythic goddesses, establishing legitimacy within and beyond the confines of Confucian ideology. Tapping into powerful subterranean reservoirs of female power, Wu Zhao built a pantheon of female divinities carefully calibrated to meet her needs at court. Her pageant was promoted in scripted rhetoric, reinforced through poetry, celebrated in theatrical productions, and inscribed on steles. Rendered with deft political acumen and aesthetic flair, these affiliations significantly enhanced Wu Zhao's authority and cast her as the human vessel through which the pantheon's divine energy flowed. Her strategy is a model of political brilliance and proof that medieval Chinese women enjoyed a more complex social status than previously known.
Elegies Of Chu
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language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022
Elegies Of Chu written by and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with History categories.
Elegies of Chu is an anthology of early Chinese poems and contains the work of Qu Yuan and other poets from the southern state of Chu and the Han dynasty. From Qu Yuan's own challenges to a corrupt regime, to the sensuous descriptive poetry of Song Yu, to the divine encounters of the 'Nine Songs', the anthology privileges individual voices of protest, longing, and transcendence, and so presents us with a unique and unparalleled vantage point on Chinese culture. The contents begin with the predicament of an alienated courtier, and range across the vast landscapes of the Han empire. 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. This entirely new translation by Nicholas Morrow Williams aims to be faithful to the linguistic specificity and baroque sensibility of the original poems. Book jacket.