Fu Poetry Along the Silk Roads : : Third-Century Chinese Writings on Exotica /

Fu Poetry Along the Silk Roads : : Third-Century Chinese Writings on Exotica / / Xurong Kong.

This book explores the dissemination of ideas and information on the early silk roads between Europe and China, through the first detailed study of the Sinicization of foreign objects in Chinese poetic writing of the third century CE. Third-century literary developments and the prevailing literary w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Kong, Xurong,
Place / Publishing House:Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:East Meets West: East Asia and Its Periphery from 200 BCE to 1600 CE
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • Introduction: A CENTURY OF WRITING ON OBJECTS
  • Part I. EXOTIC OBJECTS AT COURT
  • Chapter One. ROSEMARY AND THE CONTEST OF THE CAOS
  • Chapter Two. THE AGATE BRIDLE: TRANSFORMING AN INDIAN ROCK INTO A POLITICAL SYMBOL
  • Part II. EXOTIC OBJECTS IN THE MAINSTREAM
  • Chapter Three. POMEGRANATE: BECOMING CHINESE APPLE
  • Chapter Four. MONKEYS: GODS ELSEWHERE, PETS HERE
  • Part III. EXOTIC IMAGES IN THE SACRED SPACE
  • Chapter Five. PEACOCK: AUSPICIOUSNESS CHALLENGED
  • Chapter Six. THE LOTUS: BECOMING A CHINESE ICON
  • Conclusion. THE VALUE OF OTHERNESS IN LITERATURE
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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