The City of Ye in the Chinese Literary Landscape

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42013-7
Verlag: de Gruyter Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 145, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Sinica Leidensia

In The City of Ye in the Chinese Literary Landscape, Joanne Tsao demonstrates how the city of Ye changed from an iconic space that represented Cao Cao’s heroic enterprise to a symbol of the fruitlessness of human endeavour, and then finally to a literary landmark, a synecdoche for the vicissitudes of human life caught in the predictable cycles of dynastic rise and decline. Through a close reading of literary works on Ye, she illustrates how the city transformed from a lived to imaginative space to become a symbol in the poetic lexicon.

Making use of literary and historical texts on Ye and its material remains through the Song and beyond she shows the potency of place as a generative force in literary production and in historical discourse.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tsao, Joanne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Über Autor(innen)

Joanne Tsao, Ph.D. teaches at Arizona State University. She has published translation and articles, including “The Creation of the Bronze Bird Terrace-scape in the Northern and Southern Dynasties Period” (Early Medieval China 23 (2017).