Immortals, festivals, and poetry in medieval China : studies in social and intellectual history

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Immortals, festivals, and poetry in medieval China : studies in social and intellectual history

Donald Holzman

(Collected studies series, CS623)

Ashgate, c1998

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The papers in this volume are concerned with the themes of religion, poetry and song in early medieval China. Religion is to the fore in the first two sections, dealing with Daoist immortals and their cult, as reflected in poetic works of the first three centuries AD. Also examined are the songs used in religious ceremonies and the origins and history of the cold food festival. The last group of articles includes a major study of the poems of Ji Kang (223-262) as well as other poetry of the 4th-5th centuries, and an analysis of the changing image of the merchant from the 4th to the 9th centuries.

Table of Contents

  • Immortals: immortality-seeking in early Chinese poetry
  • the Wang ziqiao stele
  • Ts'ao Chih and the immortals
  • from scepticism to belief in 3rd-century China. Festivals: the cold food festival in early medieval China
  • songs for the gods - the poetry of popular religion in 5th-century China
  • une fete chez Su Shih a Huang chou en 1082. Poetry: la poesie de Ji Kang
  • folk ballads and the aristocracy
  • Xie Lingyun et les paysans de Yongji
  • the image of the merchant in medieval Chinese poetry.

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