Metamorphosis of the Private Sphere: Gardens and Objects in Tang-Song Poetry - Couverture rigide

Yang, Xiaoshan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674012194 ISBN 13 : 9780674012196

Editeur : Harvard University, Asia Center, 2003

Synopsis

The Chinese garden has been explored from a variety of angles. Much has been written about its structural features as well as its cosmological, religious, philosophical, moral, aesthetic, and economic underpinnings. This book deals with the poetic configurations of the private garden in cities from the ninth to the eleventh century in relation to the development of the private sphere in Chinese literati culture. It focuses on the ways in which the new values and rhetoric associated with gardens and the objects found in them helped shape the processes of self-cultivation and self-imaging among the literati, as they searched for alternatives to conventional values at a time when traditional political, moral, and aesthetic norms were increasingly judged inapplicable or inadequate.

The garden was also an artifact and a locus for material culture and social competition. Focusing on a series of anecdotes about private transactions involving objects in gardens, the author dissects the intricate nexus between the exchange of poetry and the poetry of exchange. In tracing the development of the private urban garden through the writings of Bai Juyi, Su Shi, Sima Guang, and their contemporaries, the author argues that this private space figured increasingly as a place of disengagement for those out of political power and hence was increasingly invaded by political forces.

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À propos de l'auteur

Xiaoshan Yang is Associate Professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Notre Dame University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University, Asia Center
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674012194
• ISBN 13: 9780674012196
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 325
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