TY - BOOK
T1 - Drifting with Clouds, Living by Poetry
T2 - The Rivers and Lakes Poets of the Southern Song
AU - Zhang, Hongsheng
A2 - Zhang, Chen
PY - 2023/4/12
Y1 - 2023/4/12
N2 - Zhang explores the sociohistorical environment that produced those poets, an era of political intrigues, geopolitical threats, the rise of commodity economy, flourishing popular culture, and glamorous urban life. Poetry was their means of livelihood as they drifted between low positions or as commoners, living by procuring favors from the powerful elite. The sadness and joys of a life in precarity shaped their thematic and stylistic choices, response to contemporary literary trends, and choice of poetic models. They formed a broad social network that straddled the scholar-officials and ordinary townsmen. While their poetry reflects the characteristics and concerns of both classes, there emerged a shared voice distinctly their own that turned the tide of poetry in the 13th century.
AB - Zhang explores the sociohistorical environment that produced those poets, an era of political intrigues, geopolitical threats, the rise of commodity economy, flourishing popular culture, and glamorous urban life. Poetry was their means of livelihood as they drifted between low positions or as commoners, living by procuring favors from the powerful elite. The sadness and joys of a life in precarity shaped their thematic and stylistic choices, response to contemporary literary trends, and choice of poetic models. They formed a broad social network that straddled the scholar-officials and ordinary townsmen. While their poetry reflects the characteristics and concerns of both classes, there emerged a shared voice distinctly their own that turned the tide of poetry in the 13th century.
U2 - 10.1163/9789004522954
DO - 10.1163/9789004522954
M3 - Book or report
SN - 9789004522947
T3 - Brill's Humanities in China Library
BT - Drifting with Clouds, Living by Poetry
PB - Brill
ER -