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

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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Main Author: Kong, Xurong (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leeds ARC Humanities Press [2022]
Series:East Meets West: East Asia and Its Periphery from 200 BCE to 1600 CE
Subjects:
LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese
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Summary: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 works from that era leave us with an impressive amount of information concerning exotic objects, such as plants, animals, and crafts, and record the cultural exchange between distant peoples whose goods, ideas, and technologies entered China. These hitherto-forgotten rhapsodies express the profound interest and excitement of learned men for foreign objects. They bear witness to the cultural exchanges between China and other civilizations and provide a more nuanced insight of early medieval China as an integrated society rather than an isolated one
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2022)
Physical Description:1 online resource (176 pages)
ISBN:9781802700268
DOI:10.1515/9781802700268

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