Jade-Carving Chisel and Luminous Ocean : Selected Essays by Jao Tsung-I on Literature and Related Topics / edited and translated by Nicholas Morrow Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Nicholas Morrow, editor.

Series:

Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

Collected Works of Jao Tsung-i ; 4.

Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025

Collected Works of Jao Tsung-i ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature--History and criticism.

Chinese literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2025]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jao Tsung-i’s scholarship illuminated the development of classical Chinese literature from antiquity through the end of the Qing dynasty. In this volume, eight interviews with and essays by Jao are translated faithfully into English, giving a sampling of his diverse insights into literature and its broader significance. Topics range from the religious beliefs underpinning the earliest Chinese writings, to the influence of Chan Buddhism on Chinese poetics, to Gu Yanwu’s (1613–1682) poetic protest against the Manchu conquest. Collectively the essays demonstrate how literary art and spiritual beliefs have been intertwined throughout Chinese history.

Contents:

Contents

Collected Works of Jao Tsung-i: Xuantang Anthology—Series Introduction

List of Tables and Figures

Editor’s Introduction

Original Titles and Sources for Text Translated in This Volume

1 Literature and Spirit: in Conversation with Shi Yidui

1 The Meaning of Shenming

2 The Function of Divination

3 The Verification of Spirits

2 Sudden Enlightenment and Gradual Enlightenment: in Conversation with Shi Yidui

1 The Sixth Patriarch of Chan and the Rise of Chan Poetry

2 Complete Penetration without Obstacle, Chan Mind Just So

3 A Purified World, Ice Colder Than Water

3 Chinese Characters and Poetics

1 Starting with Ezra Pound

2 The Earliest Signs and Chinese Characters

3 The Earliest Rhymed Narrative Poems

4 Monosyllabic and Polysyllabic Words

5 The Development of Xingsheng zi and Their Aesthetic Functions

6 The Principles of Character Formation and the Concept of Lei 類 (Category)

7 The Conventions of Ellipsis and Reduplication

8 Parallelism and Tonal Prosody

9 The Development of Chinese Characters from a Functional Medium to an Aesthetic One and the Simplification of Poetry

10 Conclusion

4 Confucian Learning and the Art of Rhetoric

1 Verbal Refinement and Establishing Sincerity Comprise the Union between the Interior and Exterior

2 Knowing People from Their Words

3 Rhetoric and Pragmatics

5 On the “Wen fu” and Music

1 2 3 4 5 6 6 Linked Pearls and Logic: a Case of Intercultural Misunderstanding

7 Suyab, the True Birthplace of Li Bai

1 Location of Suyab

2 Suyab Was Not Located in Qarasahr

3 New Materials about Suyab

4 Tibet and Suyab

5 Suyab and the Western Turks

6 Speculations about Why Li Bai’s Father Returned to Sichuan

7 Li Bai’s Own Account of His Background

8 Conclusion

8 On the Poetry of Gu Yanwu

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-52356-1

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004523562 DOI