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Senses of the City: Perceptions of Hangzhou and Southern Song China, 1127-1279

Senses of the City: Perceptions of Hangzhou and Southern Song China, 1127-1279

Lam, Joseph S.
Lin, Shuen-Fu
De Pee, Christian

Hardcover

Literary CriticismChinese HistoryChinese Art

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ISBN10: 9629967863
ISBN13: 9789629967864
Publisher: Chinese Univ Of Hong Kong Pr
Published: Jul 25 2017
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

The city of Hangzhou symbolized all of the contradictions of the declining Song Empire (960-1279). It was paramount and feeble, awe-inspiring and threatened, the most admired city and a disgrace to its dynastic founders. Rather than debate the merit of these polemical judgments, the contributors to this volume treat them as expressions of their historical moment, reflecting ideological convictions and aesthetic preferences.

Leading scholars of the field, including Beverly Bossler, Stephen West, and Martin Powers, have produced essays that relate changes in literary convention to shifts in territorial boundaries, and analyze writing, painting, dance, and music as means by which individual literati placed themselves in time and space. The contributors re-establish the historical connections between writing and meaningful action, between text and world, between the sources and their own words, and between the page and the senses. Their efforts to retrieve the sounds, sights, and smells of Hangzhou from Southern Song texts replicate, in reverse direction, the attempts of twelfth- and thirteenth-century authors to devise effective tropes and suitable genres that would preserve their living impressions of the city in writing.

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