Southern identity and southern estrangement in medieval Chinese poetry
By: edited by Ping Wang and Nicholas Morrow Williams
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Hong Kong
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9789888139262
Subjects: Chinese poetry; Civilization; Culture in literature; History and criticism
Notes: "Most of the essays in this volume were originally presented at the "Poetry and Place" conference held at Princeton University on October 26-27, 2012. The conference was jointly sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Princeton University Council of the Humanities"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-217) and index.

Text in English and Chinese.
Table of contents: title: Southland as symbol  -- Ping Wang and Nicholas Morrow Williams; title: Southern metal and feather fan: the "southern consciousness" of Lu Ji  -- David R. Knechtges; title: Fan writing: Lu Ji, Lu Yun and the cultural transactions between north and south  -- Xiaofei Tian; title: Plaint, lyricism, and the south  -- Ping Wang; title: Farther south: Jiang Yan in darkest Fujian  -- Paul W. Kroll; title: The pity of spring: a southern topos reimagined by Wang Bo and Li Bai  -- Nicholas Morrow Williams; title: The stele and the drunkard: two poetic allusions from Xiangyang  -- Jie Wu; title: Jiangnan from the ninth century on: the routinization of desire -- Stephen Owen.