Alan K. L. Chan, Yuet-Keung Lo
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Publication Year:
2011
Abstract:
Explores the new literary and interpretive milieu that emerged in the years following the decline of China’s Han dynasty.
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Alan K. L. Chan and Yuet-Keung Lo
1. Court Culture in the Late Eastern Han: The Case of the Hongdu Gate School
David R. Knechtges
2. The Patterns and Changes of Literary Patronage in the Han and Wei
Jui-Lung Su
3. Wandering in the Ruins: The Shuijing zhu Reconsidered
Michael Nylan
4. Evolving Practices of Guan and Liu Xie’s Theory of Literary Interpretation
Zong-Qi Cai
5. Narrative in the Self-Presentation of Transcendence-Seekers
Robert Ford Campany
6 “Jade Flower” and the Motif of Mystic Excursion in Early Religious Daoist Poetry
Timothy Wai-Keung Chan
7. Representing the Uncommon: Temple-Visit Lyrics from the Liang to Sui Dynasties
Cynthia L. Chennault
8. Fox as Trickster in Early Medieval China
Daniel Hsieh
9. Justice, Morality, and Skepticism in Six Dynasties Ghost Stories
Mu-chou Poo
List of Contributors
Index
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