The Fu Genre of Imperial China: Studies in the Rhapsodic Imagination (East Meets West: East Asia and Its Periphery from 200 Bce to 1600 Ce) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1641893311 ISBN 13: 9781641893312

Verlag: Arc Humanities Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

This is the first book in English to examine the fu, one of China’s oldest and culturally central literary forms, from its origins up to the late imperial era. Fu poems are highly revealing sources for understanding the culture, society, and politics of their periods. Though no English term even approximates it, “rhapsody” at least suggests the energy and recitative origins of the fu, which is a poetic form of tireless ambition that has been used for exhaustive descriptions of cities and palaces, as well as private reflections and lamentations, but also for carefully modulated political protest and esoteric ruminations on philosophical subtleties. In this volume, eleven essays by prominent scholars treat the fu from four major perspectives: its original use in court recitation; as a poetic genre with distinctive formal features; as a vehicle of philosophical inquiry; and as a major mode of political expression.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Nicholas Morrow Williams is Assistant Professor in the School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong.

Nicholas Morrow Williams========================Nicholas Morrow Williams is Associate Professor in the School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Arc Humanities Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1641893311
• ISBN 13: 9781641893312
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Herausgeber: Williams Nicholas Morrow
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