Considering the End: Mortality in Early Medieval Chinese Poetic Representation

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-22209-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 107, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 542 g

Reihe: Sinica Leidensia

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.

Zielgruppe

This book will appeal not only to scholars of early Medieval China, but also to anyone interested in the literary representation of the anxiety over human mortality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chan, Timothy Wai Keung

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Über Autor(innen)

Chan, Timothy Wai Keung
Timothy Wai Keung Chan, Ph.D. (1999) in Chinese, University of Colorado, Boulder, is Associate Professor of Chinese at Hong Kong Baptist University. He publishes widely in Chinese and in English on early medieval Chinese literature, intellectual history, and early Daoism.