Poetry of Loss and the Early Medieval Chinese Court of the Warlord Cao Cao (155-220).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shi, Xianglin.

Series:

East Meets West: East Asia and Its Periphery from 200 BCE to 1600 CE Series

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Arc Humanities Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Shih Hsiang-Lin : Hsiang-Lin Shih is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at St. Olaf College (Minnesota). Her research on Cao Cao's court and the classical Book of Songs has been published in the edited volume The Fu Genre of Imperial China (2019) and the Journal of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (2021).

Summary:

Shows how the accomplished poets of the Cao court in early medieval China, following the fall of the Han empire, drew on experiences of loss to reinvent the court and establish, develop, and sustain a community in difficult times.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1 AGING WITH FELLOW MORTALS

Chapter 2 SURVIVING IN HER VOICE

Chapter 3 SOUL-SUMMONING AND A BRILLIANT SUMMER

Chapter 4 CONVERSING IN LINGUA MORTUA

Chapter 5 EMULATING CAO CAO IN A WORLD UNDONE

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

1-80270-276-8

OCLC:

1452826432