Poetry and Courtier Culture in the Yongming Era (483-493)
by
Meow Goh
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
This is the first book to examine Chinese poetry and courtier culture using the concept of shengse—sound and sight—which connotes "sensual pleasure." Under the moral and political imperative to avoid or even eliminate representations of sense perception, premodern Chinese commentators...