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This groundbreaking book offers a fresh perspective on classical Chinese literature. Using literary sociology, it demonstrates how social, cultural, and political forces shaped the poetry and prose of the time, and how writers responded to it. The author employs the compelling metaphor of a “literary ferry” to carry intellectuals, their creative works, and literary practices across historical waters. Through this conceptual framework, the book sheds light on the interplay between literary texts from the Ming and Qing dynasties and their broader contexts, including historical movements, societal structures, class dynamics, institutional systems, clan relationships, community networks, mar...
He was a super secret service agent and a judge in the dark world. He was also a terrifying mercenary king. For his friend, he would stab him in both ribs. For his beauty, he would dye his battle robe with blood. All for the sake of this belief, he once again descended upon the capital of the Hua Clan. He was as domineering as a dragon, determined to trample all the enemies of the past beneath his feet. At this point in time, there was another legend of a super secret service agent in the city.
The Songs of the South is an anthology first compiled in the second century A.D. Its poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, are grouped under seventeen titles and contain all that we know of Chinese poetry's ancient beginnings. The earliest poems were composed in the fourth century B.C. and almost half of them are traditionally ascribed to Qu Yuan.
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The term Yao refers to a non-sinitic speaking, southern "Chinese" people who originated in central China, south of the Yangzi River. Despite categorization by Chinese and Western scholars of Yao as an ethnic minority with a primitive culture, it is now recognized that not only are certain strains of religious Daoism prominent in Yao ritual traditions, but the Yao culture also shares many elements with pre-modern official and mainstream Chinese culture. This book is the first to furnish a history-part cultural, part political, and part religious-of contacts between the Chinese state and autochthonous peoples (identified since the 11th century as Yao people) in what is now South China. It vivi...
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