Crossing the empires : travel poetry in Southern Song China (1127-1210)
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This first study in any language on the emissary poetry of the Southern Song explores the relationship between politics and travel poetry by Song officials from the standpoint of Song-Jin relations. It challenges the existing scholarship which claims that there was nationalism in the Southern Song. More specifically, through close reading, the present study shows that there was no shared consciousness among the Southern Song emissaries as it varied from mission to mission, person to person. Furthermore, this study reveals that irredentism or revanchism -- often viewed as a central feature of nationalism -- is but a particular version of the policy of huifu. Huifu meant different things to the emperorship and the officials at different points of Song-Jin relations. And the dream travels of Lu You in the last chapter highlight that irredentism was also changing and shifting at an individual level. To such an extent that this most famous irredentist of the Southern Song gave up his irredentism towards the end of his life. This study does show, however, the loyalty of the Song officials. But with a distinction between loyalty to whom and loyalty to what. While some showed allegiance to the emperorship, some showed allegiance to the Song dynasty. The entity that commanded their loyalty was not an imagined community but the Song empire, which was seriously challenged by the Jurchen Jin, its more powerful neighbor in the north. Finally, this study demonstrates that travel poetry informed by foreign relations and domestic politics -- like ancestor's instructions and Confucian thought -- is also an integral part of the Song political culture.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Yang, Likun |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Egan, Ronald, 1948- |
| Thesis advisor | Egan, Ronald, 1948- |
| Thesis advisor | Kieschnick, John, 1964- |
| Thesis advisor | Vinograd, Richard Ellis |
| Thesis advisor | Zhou, Yiqun, 1971- |
| Degree committee member | Kieschnick, John, 1964- |
| Degree committee member | Vinograd, Richard Ellis |
| Degree committee member | Zhou, Yiqun, 1971- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Likun Yang. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/pr503cm3250 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Likun Yang
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