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Re-discovering literature in medieval China: Mid-T'ang literary theories and political discourse.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Re-discovering literature in medieval China: Mid-T'ang literary theories and political discourse./
Author:	Wong, Kwok-yiu.
Description:	423 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-06, Section: A, page: 2335.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-06A.
Subject:	History, Asia, Australia and Oceania. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NQ69043
ISBN:	0612690431

Re-discovering literature in medieval China: Mid-T'ang literary theories and political discourse.
Wong, Kwok-yiu.

Re-discovering literature in medieval China: Mid-T'ang literary theories and political discourse. - 423 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-06, Section: A, page: 2335.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2002.

This dissertation examines the mid-T'ang (ca.750–ca.850) discourse on <italic>wen</italic> (composition), with special attention paid to how literati theorized <italic>wen</italic> in relation to their discourses on politics. The objective of this exercise is to unravel the mid-T'ang intellectual world in order to understand how literati acquired a conscious awareness of their identity. This one-century period has been considered a watershed in Chinese intellectual history. Under the pressures of the time leading literati found themselves having to articulate their views on <italic>wen</italic>. A careful assessment of this discourse is therefore essential to our understanding of the intellectual world in medieval China. The thesis begins by displacing the authority of the “<italic>ku-wen yün-tung</italic>” (ancient composition movement) in order to broaden our sense of the period. It argues that the discourse should not be seen solely as a response to the An Lu-shan rebellion (755–63), but as something more broadly rooted in the changing politics and culture of the period. Through a survey of remarks on <italic> wen</italic> made by leading literati—Hsiao Ying-shih, Li Hua, Tu-ku Chi, Liang Su, Ch'üan Te-yü, Liu Mien, Lü Wen, Liu Tsung-yüan, Liu Yü-hsi, Han Yü, Li Ao, Huang-fu Shih, Po Chü-i, Yüan Chen, Tu Mu, and Li Shang-yin—this study demonstrates that the underlying stress was placed on the literary value of <italic>wen</italic>. A force of reversal was at work. While many literati worked to “re-activate” <italic> wen</italic>'s relevance in politics by both emphasizing its political function and recommending reform in the civil service examinations, many of the key figures in the discourse came to think of <italic>wen</italic> as a literary construct. The arduous attempt to promote a politicized <italic>wen</italic>, at the end, receded to the background. Signs of a conscious awareness of <italic> wen</italic>'s literary value suggest a “re-discovery” of <italic> wen</italic> mainly as a mode of artistic expression rather than as a political construct. Literature became a personal quest for meaning in life and its immediacy had little direct relevance to politics. This points to a moving away from a court-centered orientation of the literati, and suggests a more inward looking attitude among the mid-T'ang literati.

ISBN: 0612690431Subjects--Topical Terms:

626624
History, Asia, Australia and Oceania.

Re-discovering literature in medieval China: Mid-T'ang literary theories and political discourse.
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