{"id":1640,"date":"2013-02-14T11:33:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T03:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2013-02-14T11:33:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T03:33:06","slug":"new-books-in-east-asian-studies-interview-with-bruce-rusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"New Books in East Asian Studies: interview with Bruce Rusk"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/newbooksineastasianstudies.com\/2013\/02\/12\/bruce-rusk-critics-and-commentators-the-book-of-poems-as-classic-and-literature-harvard-up-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newbooksnetwork.com\/eastasianstudies\/wp-content\/nbn_author_photos\/bruce-rusk.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>What makes something a poem? What defines \u201cpoetry,\u201d and how has that changed over space and time? <em><a href=\"http:\/\/newbooksineastasianstudies.com\/2013\/02\/12\/bruce-rusk-critics-and-commentators-the-book-of-poems-as-classic-and-literature-harvard-up-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">Critics and Commentators: The \u2018Book of Poems\u2019 as Classic and Literature<\/a><\/em> (Harvard University Press, 2012) considers such questions as they chart a path through literary studies in Chinese history. From the comparative poetics of a Han dynasty \u201ccritic in the borderlands\u201d to the theories of May Fourth intellectuals, Bruce Rusk\u2019s elegantly written and carefully argued new book traces the changing relationships between secular and canonical poetry over 25 centuries of verse in China. Rusk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674067011\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/513ZqZ83jxL._SL160_.jpg?resize=104%2C160\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"160\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>introduces readers to a cast of fascinating characters in the course of this journey, from a versifying \u201cdrive-by\u201d poet to a gifted craftsman of textual forgeries. In the course of an analysis of the changing modes of inscribing relationships between classical studies and other fields in China, we learn about poems on stone and metal, literary time-travel, ploughing emperors, and how to excavate the first drafts of Zhu Xi. This is an exceptionally rich account that ranges from the history of literary anthologies to the circulation of interpretive tropes in poetic commentaries, and in doing so it transcends the disciplinary boundaries of historical and literary studies of China.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click the image above or listen here:<\/p>\n<p class=\"audioplayer_container\"><span style=\"display:block;padding:5px;border:1px solid #dddddd;background:#f8f8f8\" id=\"audioplayer_1\">Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&amp;promoid=BIOW\" title=\"Download Adobe Flash Player\">here<\/a>. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.embed(\"audioplayer_1\", {soundFile:\"aHR0cDovL2ZpbGVzLm5ld2Jvb2tzbmV0d29yay5jb20vZWFzdGFzaWEvMDUxZWFzdGFzaWFydXNrLm1wMw\"});<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes something a poem? What defines \u201cpoetry,\u201d and how has that changed over space and time? Critics and Commentators: The \u2018Book of Poems\u2019 as Classic and Literature (Harvard University Press, 2012) considers such questions as they chart a path &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1640\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[947,878,540,948],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-qs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":610,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=610","url_meta":{"origin":1640,"position":0},"title":"Xi Chuan in Seattle","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Under the title \"American Poetry Culture & Chinese Culture,\" Seattle-based cultural figure Paul Nelson (who earlier interviewed Xi Chuan) has a write-up of Xi Chuan's reactions to Seattle & American poetry, and his recent reading at the Seattle Central Library with Paul Manfredi. 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