Southern Identity and Southern Estrangement in Medieval Chinese Poetry

by Ping Wang

From ancient times, China's remote and exotic South--a shifting and expanding region beyond the Yangtze River--has been an enduring theme in Chinese literature. For poets and scholar-officials in medieval China, the South was a barbaric frontier region of alienation and disease. But it was also a place of richness and fascination, and for some a site of cultural triumph over exile. The eight essays in this collection explore how tensions between pride...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9888139266
• ISBN13: 9789888139262
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"