03433nam 2200577Ia 450 991083830720332120240306171259.01-64189-965-41-80270-026-910.1515/9781802700268(MiAaPQ)EBC7013308(Au-PeEL)EBL7013308(CKB)23524815200041EBL7013308(OCoLC)1328133729(AU-PeEL)EBL7013308(OCoLC)1322474134(MdBmJHUP)musev2_98468(DE-B1597)617599(DE-B1597)9781802700268(OCoLC)1374614605(UkLoBP)BP9781641899659BMS(EXLCZ)992352481520004120230331e20222023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFu Poetry along the Silk Roads Third-Century Chinese Writings on Exotica1st ed.Leeds :Arc Humanities Press,2022.London :Bloomsbury Publishing,2023.1 online resource (176 pages)East Meets West: East Asia and Its Periphery from 200 BCE to 1600 CEDescription based upon print version of record.Print version: Kong, Xurong Fu Poetry along the Silk Roads Amsterdam : Arc Humanities Press,c2022 9781641894739 Frontmatter --CONTENTS --LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --Introduction: A CENTURY OF WRITING ON OBJECTS --Part I. EXOTIC OBJECTS AT COURT --Chapter One. ROSEMARY AND THE CONTEST OF THE CAOS --Chapter Two. THE AGATE BRIDLE: TRANSFORMING AN INDIAN ROCK INTO A POLITICAL SYMBOL --Part II. EXOTIC OBJECTS IN THE MAINSTREAM --Chapter Three. POMEGRANATE: BECOMING CHINESE APPLE --Chapter Four. MONKEYS: GODS ELSEWHERE, PETS HERE --Part III. EXOTIC IMAGES IN THE SACRED SPACE --Chapter Five. PEACOCK: AUSPICIOUSNESS CHALLENGED --Chapter Six. THE LOTUS: BECOMING A CHINESE ICON --Conclusion. THE VALUE OF OTHERNESS IN LITERATURE --BIBLIOGRAPHY --INDEXThis book explores the dissemination of ideas and information on the early silk roads between Europe and China, through the first detailed study of the Sinicization of foreign objects in Chinese poetic writing of the third century CE. Third-century literary developments and the prevailing literary works from that era leave us with an impressive amount of information concerning exotic objects, such as plants, animals, and crafts, and record the cultural exchange between distant peoples whose goods, ideas, and technologies entered China. These hitherto-forgotten rhapsodies express the profound interest and excitement of learned men for foreign objects. They bear witness to the cultural exchanges between China and other civilizations and provide a more nuanced insight of early medieval China as an integrated society rather than an isolated one.East Meets West: East Asia and Its Periphery from 200 BCE to 1600 CEChinese poetryHistory and criticismSilk RoadHistoryChinese poetryHistory and criticism.895.11209Kong Xurong1728934UkLoBPUkLoBPBOOK9910838307203321Fu Poetry along the Silk Roads4138425UNINA