{"id":2400,"date":"2014-02-12T09:30:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T01:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2014-02-08T10:17:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T02:17:11","slug":"2400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2400","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Literature Dissertation Reviews: Poetics of Miscellaneousness in Southern Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Poetics Dissertation Reviews<\/a> has posted Edwin van Bibber-Orr\u2019s review of Liu Gang\u2019s dissertation, The Poetics of Miscellaneousness: The Literary Design of Liu Yiqing\u2019s <\/i>Qiantang Yishi and the Historiography of the Southern Song<\/i>. <\/b>Here\u2019s how it begins:<\/p>\n

Gang Liu\u2019s dissertation, The Poetics of Miscellaneousness: The Literary Design of Liu Yiqing\u2019s <\/i>Qiantang Yishi and the Historiography of the Southern Song<\/i>, is an ambitious structural analysis of the Yuan biji<\/i> \u7b46\u8a18<\/em> (\u201cliterally, brush notes\u201d [p. 2]) text Qiantang yishi <\/i>\u9322\u5858\u907a\u4e8b<\/em> (\u201cAnecdotes of Qiantang\u201d), by Liu Yiqing \u5289\u4e00\u6e05<\/em> (ca. early 14th c.). Biji, <\/i>Liu writes, is \u201ca type of Chinese literature\u2026 whose miscellaneous content, accommodative structure, and flexible form often challenge our very conception of literary genre itself\u201d (p. 2). Liu\u2019s thorough introduction details the evolution of the biji <\/i>genre in China and reviews scholarship in both China and the West; in his discussion of biji, <\/i>Liu quotes Christian de Pee that the genre \u201cstands in an implied contrast with a stabilizing center of imperial power, legitimate genres of written composition, and enduring civilization.\u201d Liu points out that biji<\/i> traditionally have been understood only as historical texts, and remarks that the special \u201cliterary qualities\u201d (p. 30) of biji<\/i> have mostly been ignored.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Dissertation Reviews has posted Edwin van Bibber-Orr\u2019s review of Liu Gang\u2019s dissertation, The Poetics of Miscellaneousness: The Literary Design of Liu Yiqing\u2019s Qiantang Yishi and the Historiography of the Southern Song. Here\u2019s how it begins: Gang Liu\u2019s dissertation, The Poetics … Continue reading →<\/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":[623,3],"tags":[1338,1335,1336,1337],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8srwF-2400","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1914,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1914","url_meta":{"origin":2400,"position":0},"title":"Chinese Literature Dissertation Reviews: Foreign Echoes & Discerning the Soil","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"May 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0Dissertation Reviews has posted Brian Skerratt's review of my dissertation, Foreign Echoes and Discerning the Soil: Dual Translation, Historiography, and World Literature in Chinese Poetry. 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