Written at imperial command : panegyric poetry in early medieval China / / Fusheng Wu

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823981803321
• Autore: Wu Fusheng <1959->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2008
• ISBN: 0-7914-7872-6; 1-4356-3902-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
• Collana: SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
• Disciplina: 895.1/1209
• Soggetti: Chinese poetry - 221 B.C.-960 A.D - History and criticism; Laudatory poetry - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-282) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Written at Imperial Command -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Han Epideictic Rhapsody: The Protoype of Panenric Potry -- 2. Self-Foregrounding in the Panegyric Poetry of the Jian'an Era -- 3. Archaic Elegance in the Panegyric Poetry of the Jin Dynasty -- 4. Addressing the Bestand Worst of Rulers: Panenric Potry of the Liu Song Dynasy -- 5. Praising Rulers throughout Calm and Conspiracy: The Southern Qi Dynasy -- 6. The Flourishing of Panegyric Poetry during the Liang Dynasty -- 7. Poetry's Embarrassment: Panegyric Poetry of the Chen Dynasty -- 8. Becoming Chinese: Panenric Potry during the Northern Dynasties -- 9. Matching Poems with a Cruel but Talented Ruler: The Sui Dynasy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the first book-length study of panegyric poetry—yingzhao shi or poetry presented to imperial rulers—in the Chinese tradition. Examining poems presented during the Wei-Jin Nanbeichao, or early medieval period (220–619), Fusheng Wu provides a thorough exploration of the sociopolitical background against which these poems were written and a close analysis of the formal conventions of the poems.By reconstructing the human drama behind the composition of ; these poems, Wu shows that writing under imperial command could be a matter of grave consequence. The poets' work could determine the rise and fall of careers, or even cost lives. While panegyric poetry has been largely dismissed as perfunctory and insincere, such poems reveal much about the relations between monarchs and the intellectuals they patronized and also compels us to reexamine the canonical Chinese notion of poetic production as personal, spontaneous expression.