Fu Poetry Along the Silk Roads: Third-Century Chinese Writings on Exotica

✍ Scribed by Xurong Kong

Publisher: Arc Humanities Press
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 175
Series: East Meets West: East Asia and Its Periphery from 200 BCE to 1600 CE
Edition: New
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This 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.

✦ Table of Contents

01.0_pp_i_iv_Frontmatter
02.0_pp_v_v_Contents
03.0_pp_vi_vi_List_of_Illustrations
04.0_pp_vii_viii_Acknowledgements
05.0_pp_1_18_Introduction_A_Century_of_Writing_on_Objects
06.0_pp_19_20_Exotic_Objects_at_Court
06.1_pp_21_36_Rosemary_and_the_Contest_of_the_Caos
06.2_pp_37_52_The_Agate_Bridle_Transforming_an_Indian_Rock_into_a_Political_Symbol
07.0_pp_53_54_Exotic_Objects_in_the_Mainstream
07.1_pp_55_74_Pomegranate_Becoming_Chinese_Apple
07.2_pp_75_92_Monkeys_Gods_Elsewhere_Pets_Here
08.0_pp_93_94_Exotic_Images_in_the_Sacred_Space
08.1_pp_95_110_Peacock_Auspiciousness_Challenged
08.2_pp_111_130_The_Lotus_Becoming_A_Chinese_Icon
09.0_pp_131_142_Conclusion_The_Value_of_Otherness_in_Literature
10.0_pp_143_160_Bibliography
11.0_pp_161_167_Index

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