{"product_id":"writing-poetry-surviving-war-the-works-of-refugee-scholar-official-chen-yuyi-1090-1139-hardcover","title":"Writing Poetry, Surviving War: The Works of Refugee Scholar-Official Chen Yuyi (1090-1139) - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYugen Wang\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book is in the \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCambria Sinophone World Series\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e headed by Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a study of the works of the Northern Song Chinese poet Chen Yuyi (1090-1139) as he fled the Jurchen invasion during the massive political upheavals of a dynastic transition. This book demonstrates how Chen's poems epitomize the new style of writing in the Song that is markedly different from that of his Tang predecessors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderscoring this stylistic and aesthetic analysis is a comparison of Chen and his model, the Tang master Du Fu (712-770). The study concludes that although the traumatic experience triggered Chen's inner Du Fu, he and Du were writing from different literary and cultural assumptions, with different expectations and skill sets. The collective eleventh-century pursuit of ideological and intellectual cohesion required that Chen write more cogently than Du Fu; the urgent contingencies of his travel mandated that Chen observe and make sense of the political chaos from the perspective of a realistic road traveler. The result is a compact, practical, logically coherent, and technically precise style with ramifications that apply far beyond Chen's own times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book-length study of Chen's poetry in English. Through detailed analysis of Chen's poems, and of the political and psychological conditions under which they were written, the reader gains intimate insights into not only how a classical Chinese poet conducted his business, on the road, in crisis, but also the sources of the poet's inner strength, what culturally, psychologically, and emotionally sustained him on the long painful journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis was an important period not only for Chen Yuyi but also for Chinese literary history. Chen's poems bring to focus the changing dynamics of the classical Chinese poet's relationship to the world. As his journey grew longer and brought him farther away from central China, the richness of the local landscapes in the south made him less apprehensive about the political situation, allowed him to endure the constant fluctuations in his environment, and revitalized his inner self as a poet. As Chen struggled and eventually reconciled with the political situation, he achieved a new balance between person and world, mind and landscape, a status later Chinese critics and theorists call \u003cem\u003eqingjing jiaorong\u003c\/em\u003e, the propitious fusion and coming together of emotion and nature in poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn original study on Chinese poetry, \u003cem\u003eWriting Poetry, Surviving War\u003c\/em\u003e is an important book for Asian studies and premodern Chinese humanities collections. It will appeal to scholarly and general audiences whose interests intersect China, premodern travel, trauma literature, traditional ideas of nature, and landscape poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 372\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 30, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101151203463,"sku":"9781621965466","price":172.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/d92505929348cd3f32298d3c0b5fa1d4.webp?v=1732391359","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/writing-poetry-surviving-war-the-works-of-refugee-scholar-official-chen-yuyi-1090-1139-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}