Poetry and politics: the life and works of Juan Chi, A.D. 210-263

Poetry and Politics is the first full-length study in any language of the life and works of the Chinese poet and thinker, Juan Chi (AD 210–263). This book contains translations of all Juan Chi's important works, in verse and prose, his letters and all the historical accounts of his life. The re...

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Main Author: Holzman, Donald 1914- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1976
Series:Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511759918
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511759918
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511759918
Summary:Poetry and Politics is the first full-length study in any language of the life and works of the Chinese poet and thinker, Juan Chi (AD 210–263). This book contains translations of all Juan Chi's important works, in verse and prose, his letters and all the historical accounts of his life. The reader is thus enabled, for the first time in a work of this kind, to see a Chinese writer in the round, in his works and in his setting. Juan Chi's attachment to traditional Confucian values kept him in the centre of political and social life, but eventually his disgust with the disloyalty and self-seeking he saw in Wei society made him turn away. He attempted in Taoism and in the pursuit of Taoist immortality to find the purity and permanence so lacking in the world, but without an ultimate commitment. Juan Chi was accused both in his lifetime and subsequently of being a Confucian hero and a Taoist iconoclast, and in him can be seen the contradictory intellectual and religious forces t hat were slowly bringing in the Chinese Middle Ages
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 316 pages)
ISBN:9780511759918
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511759918