Cai - How To Read Chinese Poetry - A Guided Anthology

HOW TO READ CHINESE LITERATURE

ZONG-QI CAI, GENERAL EDITOR

YUAN XINGPEI, EDITORIAL BOARD DIRECTOR

How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology (2008)

How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook (2012)

How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang (2018)

HOW TO READ CHINESE POETRY IN CONTEXT

Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang

EDITED BY ZONG-QI CAI

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Names: Cai, Zong-qi, 1955 editor.

Title: How to read Chinese poetry in context : poetic culture from antiquity through the Tang / edited by Zong-qi Cai.

Description: New York : Columbia University Press, 2018. | Series: How to read Chinese literature | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017019392 (print) | LCCN 2017033861 (ebook) | ISBN 9780231185363 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231185370 (pbk.)

Subjects: LCSH: Chinese poetry221 B.C.960 A.D.History and criticism. | Literature and societyChinaHistoryTo 1500.

Classification: LCC PL2313 (ebook) | LCC PL2313 .H69 2018 (print) | DDC 895.11/209dc23

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CONTENTS

ZONG-QI CAI

WAI-YEE LI

STEPHEN OWEN

YU-YU CHENG AND GREGORY PATTERSON

ZONG-QI CAI

OLGA LOMOV

XINDA LIAN

NANXIU QIAN

ALAN BERKOWITZ

MEOW HUI GOH

TSUNG-CHENG LIN

MANLING LUO

MAIJA BELL SAMEI

CHEN YINCHI AND JING CHEN

PAULA VARSANO

JACK W. CHEN

AO WANG

ROBERT ASHMORE

1. POETRY AND THE STATE

1.1 DIPLOMACY AND GOVERNANCE

Presenting a Shijing poem ( fushi ) for diplomatic purposes, as recorded in Zuo Tradition ( Zuozhuan ) (chap. 1)

The formula of fushi (presenting a Shijing poem) in Zuo Tradition ( Zuozhuan ) (chap. 1)

Airs or folk songs ( feng ) in the Book of Poetry ( Shijing ) facilitating communication between rulers and commoners (chap. 4)

Confuciuss remarks on the political functions of the Book of Poetry ( Shijing ) (chap. 1)

Poetry/literature as an enterprise comparable to state affairs (Cao Pis thesis on literature) (chap. 6)

Representations of state failure and social disorder in Du Fus poems (chap. 15)

HTRCP chap. 1 (Tetrasyllabic Shi Poetry: The Book of Poetry [ Shijing ]) and WKB P01; WKB Unit 18 (Meditation on History: Rise and Fall of Dynasties). See also Du Fus poems, HTRCP C8.1, C8.2, C10.14 and WKB P52

1.2 EMPIRE BUILDING IN TEXT

The unified empire as all under heaven ( tianxia ) in a Han rhapsody (chap. 3)

The regulation of the rulers desire in Han rhapsodies (chap. 3)

The rhapsody and Han imperial authority (chap. 3)

Pleasure parks as symbols of power in Han rhapsodies (chap. 3)

Competition between central and regional powers reflected in Han rhapsodies (chap. 3)

Sima Xiangrus great rhapsodies and the political identity of Emperor Wu of the Han (chap. 3)

Cao Caos poetry as poetic chronicle (chap. 6)

HTRCP chap. 3 ( Fu Poetry: An Ancient-Style Rhapsody [ Gufu ])

1.3 POETRY AND IDEOLOGY

The adoption of Confucianism as the state ideology in the Han dynasty (chap. 4)

The rhapsody and Han dynasty Confucianism (chap. 3)

Criticism of Confucian orthodoxy in Old Poem Composed for the Wife of Jiao Zhongqing (chap. 5)

Filial piety and Confucian morality during and after the Eastern Han (chap. 5)

Cao Caos iconoclastic gesture to separate poetry from Confucian ideology (chap. 6)

The quest for alternatives to Confucian orthodoxy in the Six Dynasties (chap. 14)

Tao Qian as a model for Confucian conduct and values (chap. 8)

The Confucian ideal of an official career and the early and high Tang poet-knights (chap. 10)

HTRCP Thematic Contents, 1.1 Confucianism; HTRCP C3.1 and C4.8. See also Tao Qians poems, HTRCP C6.1, C6.2, C6.3, and C6.4

2. POETRY AND LEARNING

2.1 CANONICAL AND ENCYCLOPEDIC TEXTS

The canonization of the Book of Poetry ( Shijing ) during the Han (chap. 4; chap. 6)

The rise to prominence of the Mao, Qi, Lu, and Han texts of the Book of Poetry ( Shijing ) in the Han dynasty (chap. 4)

The compilation and annotation of the Songs of Chu ( Chuci ) during the Han (chap. 2)

Things and names in the Han rhapsody (chap. 3)

HTRCP chap. 1 (Tetrasyllabic Shi Poetry: The Book of Poetry [ Shijing ]), chap. 3 ( Fu Poetry: An Ancient-Style Rhapsody [ Gufu ]), and Thematic Contents, 1.1 Confucianism

2.2 ABSTRUSE LEARNING ( XUANXUE )

Wei-Jin Abstruse Learning ( Xuanxue ) (chap. 7)

Zhi Dun combines Mahyna Buddhism and Abstruse Learning ( Xuanxue ) in interpreting the Zhuangzi (chap. 7)

HTRCP chap. 6 (Pentasyllabic Shi Poetry: Landscape and Farmstead Poems) and Thematic Contents, 1.2 Daoism and Abstruse Learning ( Xuanxue ); WKB Unit 3 (Fields and Gardens), Unit 4 (Landscape: Excursions), and Unit 5 (Landscape: Grand Scenes)

2.3 CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS

Genesis of the Tang civil service examination system (chap. 11)

The civil service examination in the Tang dynasty (chap. 10; chap. 11; chap. 12; chap. 16)

Empress Wu expands the civil service examination system (chap. 12)

The inclusion of poetic composition in the presented scholar examination (chap. 11; chap. 12)

Poetic excellence as an important criterion for selecting government officials (chap. 11)

The debates over poetic composition and the presented scholar examination (chap. 11)