Du Fu Transforms : : Tradition and Ethics amid Societal Collapse / / Lucas Rambo Bender.

"Often considered China's greatest poet, Du Fu (712-770) came of age at the height of the Tang dynasty, in an era marked by confidence that the accumulated wisdom of the precedent cultural tradition would guarantee civilization's continued stability and prosperity. When his society co...

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Superior document:Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series ; Volume 126
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, Massachusetts : : Harvard University Asia Center,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Chinese
Series:Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; Volume 126.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Time and authority : early poems (before 755)
  • Omen and chaos : poems of frustration and foreboding (through 755)
  • Convention and nature : the outbreak of the rebellion (756-57)
  • Narrative and experience : poems of the western frontiers (late 759)
  • Vision and the mundane : Du Fu's years in Western Sichuan (760-65)
  • History and community : Kuizhou poems (766-68)
  • Contingency and adaptation : last poems (768-70)