Poetry and Ideology: The Evolution of Poetic Functions from the Western Zhou to the Han Dynasty and the Formation of Chinese Poetic Concepts

Author: Li Chunqing
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Is the Book of Songs a text of primal and simple male and female love, human and divine interaction, or an ideological text that criticizes evil with beauty? How did it become the foundational text of Confucianism? This book employs the method of "cultural poetics" to examine the evolution of the sociocultural functions of Book of Songs works within the generation and transformation of specific cultural and historical contexts, and clarifies the deep cultural logic behind the formation of Confucian poetics.