Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan

Brian Steininger

ISBN 10: 0674975154 / ISBN 13: 9780674975156

Edité par HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Jun 2017, 2017

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Neuware - Brian Steininger revisits Japan's mid-Heian court of the Tale of Genji and the Pillow Book, where literary Chinese was not only the basis of official administration, but also a medium for political protest, sermons of mourning, and poems of celebration.

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• Titre: Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan
• Éditeur: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Jun 2017
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674975154
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674975156
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 238 L x 160 H x 24 P (en millimètres) 238 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 24 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 556 grammes

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Synopsis

Written Chinese served as a prestigious, cosmopolitan script across medieval East Asia, from as far west as the Tarim Basin to the eastern kingdom of Heian period Japan (794 1185). In this book, Brian Steininger revisits the mid-Heian court of the Tale of Genji and the Pillow Book, where literary Chinese was not only the basis of official administration, but also a medium for political protest, sermons of mourning, and poems of celebration.

Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan reconstructs the lived practice of Chinese poetic and prose genres among Heian officials, analyzing the material exchanges by which documents were commissioned, the local reinterpretations of Tang aesthetic principles, and the ritual venues in which literary Chinese texts were performed in Japanese vocalization. Even as state ideology and educational institutions proclaimed the Chinese script s embodiment of timeless cosmological patterns, everyday practice in this far-flung periphery subjected classical models to a string of improvised exceptions. Through careful comparison of literary and documentary sources, this book provides a vivid case study of one society s negotiation of literature s position both within a hierarchy of authority and between the incommensurable realms of script and speech.

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À propos de l?auteur

Brian Steininger is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University.