| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 720 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Sinica Leidensia ; v. 111 |
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Sinica Leidensia ; v. 111
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| Contents |
List of Illustrations ; Preface; Zheng Zhen and the Song School of Poetry; The Song School, Reform, and the Foreign Matters Movement; Some Technical Details; Thanks; Chronology of Zheng Zhen and the Shatan Group to 1864; Glossary of Chinese Literary Terms; Abbreviations; PART ONE; INTRODUCTION; INTRODUCTION; The Literary Problem; The Rewriting of the Canon; The Study of Nineteenth-Century Poetry Since 1949; Problems of Intellectual History ; Problems of Political History ; Modernity and Modernities; The Translations; PART TWO; BIOGRAPHY; CHAPTER ONE |
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Hope and Disappointment: The Early YearsGuizhou and Zunyi; Zheng Zhen's Ancestry and Youth ; The Young Zheng Zhen and the Li Family; Expanding Intellectual Horizons; Scholarship, Poetry, and Disappointment; At the Age of Thirty; Success and Failure; Death and Depression; CHAPTER TWO; Through the Valley of Death; The First Opium War and its Aftermath; Zheng Zhen the Teacher; The Calm before the Storm ; The Storm Breaks; The Storm Breaks in Guizhou; Respite; Descent into Chaos; Life among the Ruins; Denouement; PART THREE; THOUGHT AND LITERARY THEORY; CHAPTER THREE |
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The Bright and Dark Sides of Zheng Zhen's MindEarly Intellectual Background; The Han Learning; The Changzhou School; Politics and Poverty; Officials and Examinations; Ending Rebellion and Reconstructing China's Culture; Women; Zheng Zhen's Inclusiveness; The Dark Thoughts: Tradition and Fate ; Heaven and Guilt; Zheng's "Heterodox" Practices; Posterity; Was Zheng Zhen Modern?; A Comparison with Gong Zizhen; CHAPTER FOUR; Inspiration and Learning: Zheng Zhen and the Song School's Theory of Literature; Why Song Poetry?; Ming and Qing Forerunners |
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The Song School's Theory of Poetry and Cheng Enze's TargetsThe Primacy of Learning; Talent and Spontaneity; Nurturing the Spirit; Individual Expression and the Avoidance of Vulgarity; Poet's Poetry and Scholar's Poetry; Zheng Zhen and his Masters; Zheng Zhen and Han Yu; PART FOUR; MAJOR STYLES AND THEMES; CHAPTER FIVE; Redefining the Human Realm ; Introduction; Zheng Zhen and Du Fu; Du Fu's Family ; Zheng Zhen's Family Portraits; Husbands and Wives; Children; Mothers and Fathers; Friends; The Poems of Mourning and the World of the Dead; Conclusion; CHAPTER SIX |
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The Rapture and Terror of Nature Background; Zheng Zhen's Nature Poetry and its Masters; Early Nature Poetry; The Beginnings of the Abstruse Style; Han Yu's Influence; Su Shi and Han Yu; Late Nature Poetry; Poems on Landscape Paintings; CHAPTER SEVEN; Stories Told in New Ways: the Narrative Verse; Pre-Qing Narrative Poetry; Early Qing Narrative Verse; The Eighteenth Century; Nineteenth-Century Narrative Poetry; Zheng Zhen's Early Use of Narration; The Beginnings of Zheng Zhen's Narrative Verse; Zheng Zhen's First Narrative Masterpiece; The Mature Narratives; The Poet Historian |
| Summary |
In The Poet Zheng Zhen (1806-1864) and the Rise of Chinese Modernity J.D. Schmidt provides a study of one of the China's greatest poets and a major architect of Chinese modernity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 677-707) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Zheng, Zhen, 1806-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Zheng, Zhen, 1806-1864 -- Knowledge
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Zheng, Zhen, 1806-1864 -- Translations into English
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| SUBJECT |
Zheng, Zhen, 1806-1864 fast |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Translations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schmidt, J. D. (Jerry Dean), 1946- translator.
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Zheng, Zhen, 1806-1864.
Poems. Selections. English.
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| ISBN |
9789004252295 |
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9004252290 |
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1299711588 |
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9781299711587 |
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