A Comprehensive Discussion on the Origins and Development of Chinese Ci-Fu--Special Issue of the Center for Chinese Poetry Studies, Nanjing University

Author: Cao Hong
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: In the history of Chinese literature, the fu (a classical Chinese literary form) is one of the most enduring literary styles, and it has also influenced neighboring countries within the ancient Chinese character culture circle. This book focuses on the various organic factors in the development of the fu, striving to explore problem points from the vertical historical process of this genre and its cross-national influences. Correspondingly, it adopts a series of essays, categorized into four thematic sections: Origins, Thought, Theory, and Foreign Influence. To showcase the broad connotations of the Chinese fu's origins, the book not only investigates certain initial or transitional creative forms, aesthetic propositions, and the interaction between the fu and poetry and prose during the historical process of the fu's development but also provides new evidence for the interplay between the history of the fu and the history of thought, as well as the penetration of this Chinese literary genre into the fu studies of neighboring countries. The expansion of research perspectives and the application of multiple approaches are the key contributions of this book.