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Published on: 2012-08-08
Released on: 2012-08-08
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The first book-length study in English of the Chinese classic, the Li sao (Encountering Sorrow). Includes translations of the Li sao and the Nine Songs.The Li sao (also known as Encountering Sorrow), attributed to the poet-statesman Qu Yuan (4th–3rd century BCE), is one of the cornerstones of the Chinese poetic tradition. It has long been studied as China’s first extended allegory in poetic form, yet most scholars agree that there is very little in the two-thousand-year-old tradition of commentary on it that convincingly explains its supernatural flights, its complex floral imagery, or the gender ambiguity of its primary poetic persona. The Shaman and the Heresiarch is the first book-length study of the Li sao in English, offering new translations of both the Li sao and the Nine Songs. The book traces the shortcomings of the earliest extant commentary on those texts, that of Wang Yi, back to the quasi-divinatory methods of the highly politicized tradition of Chinese classical hermeneutics in general, and the political machinations of a Han dynasty empress dowager in particular. It also offers an entirely new interpretation of the Li sao, one based not on Qu Yuan hagiography but on what late Warring States period artifacts and texts, including recently unearthed texts, teach us about the cultural context that produced the poem. In that light we see in the Li sao not only a reflection of the era of the great classical Chinese philosophers, but also the breakdown of the political-religious order of the ancient state of Chu.“The book is extremely well researched and meticulous in execution; it represents a new height of interpretation and cross-disciplinary evaluation of an essential classic of ancient Chinese poetry. Every institution of literature and Chinese studies should have it on its shelves.” — Religious Studies Review“Gopal Sukhu’s highly original … new study of the ‘Li sao’ is the most detailed treatment of the poem in English since Lim Boon Keng’s 1929 The Li sao, an Elegy on Encountering Sorrows.” — Journal of Chinese ReligionsGopal Sukhu is Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Queens College, City University of New York, and teaches Classical Chinese at Columbia University. web.mit.edu / jik/src/Attic/kerberos_ password - . .mn 0 01 05_1 1 10 100 10th 11 11_d0003 12 13 14 141a 143b 15 16 17 17igp 18 19 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 ... Chu Ci - Wikipedia The Chu Ci variously translated as Verses of Chu or Songs of Chu is an anthology of Chinese poetry traditionally attributed mainly to Qu Yuan and Song Yu from the ...
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