Cultural Interpretation of Ci Poetry

Author: Xu Jie
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book collects eighteen research papers written by the author, aiming to comprehensively interpret the origin, development, and evolution of the fu through a cultural lens, and explore its connections with politics, academia, religion, institutions, diplomacy, science and technology, rituals, and artistic culture. The papers in the book are divided into four categories: first, studies on the fu and culture; second, interdisciplinary research on the fu and poetry; third, studies on the relationship between the fu literature and various disciplines; and fourth, research on regulated fu and the imperial examinations. In the field of classical literary creation, the fu can best reflect the political and cultural atmosphere and is rich in cultural and institutional connotations. Its reflection in creation lies in the characteristics of "combining talent and learning" and "serving the state and governing the land," which is the main theme this book seeks to elucidate. In specific research, the author's explorations into the fu and urban civilization, the fu writer and ritual officials, the historical value of the fu in local records, the evolutionary relationship between capital city fu and pastoral poetry, and the connection between the envoy's "poetry" and its development into literature and diplomacy, etc., clearly extend beyond the realm of the fu, holding significance for broadening research perspectives and expanding the scope of research.