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83–84; Traditionalists and, 47, 49,
poetic performance, see perform-
126, 131, 279. See also Classic of
ance
Poetry
poetic praxis, 72, 164
“Poems of My Heart” (“Yong huai
poetic production, 6, 13, 119, 170,
shi”), 133
229, 248; in literary arena,
poetic competence, 53, 72, 113,
256–57; strategy of, 273; theory
119–43, 156, 238; aesthetic sense
of, 109–10. See also composition
and, 136, 141, 143; Confucius on,
poetic utterance, see utterance
33; at court, 29–31, 204, 205–6,
poetry: definition of, 78, 167;
245; display of, 158, 212, 248–50,
power of, 265, 267–68, 281, 282;
254–55, 281; elite knowledge and,
shi poetry, 4–5, 165, 166, 278, 282
125, 136, 137; examinations for,
poetry for poetry’s sake, 238
229–30, 231; explicit comment
political factions, 112, 214
and, 49–50; flexibility in, 142;
political hierarchy, 37, 203, 241, 255
improvisation and, 135, 139–40;
political power, 28, 149, 154, 238, 257,
intent and, 71–72; master-slave
272. See also imperial power
relations and, 127–31, 132; narra-
political sphere, 157, 256. See also
tive and, 6, 12; performance and,
court; official class
13, 49, 157–58, 209, 211, 279, 282;
politics, 203–4, 235–36, 280–81. See
in Prince Chong’er story, 35,
also diplomacy
36–38, 42–44, 46; self-referential,
popular taste, 146
241, 250, 256–57; simultaneous
power: competition for, 111–12, 123;
composition and, 252; in
at court, 18, 19, 37, 208; in cul-
speechmaking, 62; in Storied
tural capital, 72; expressive, 198;
Poems, 10, 13–14, 164, 172, 199,
hierarchy of, 41, 271–72; mani-
203, 278; in Topical Tales, 10, 12,
festation of ( fahui), 177–78; in
113, 121–23, 126–27, 132, 133, 137,
master-slave relations, 128; of
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poetry, 265, 267–68, 281, 282;
62, 63, 65–67; “Grand” cited in,
political, 28, 149, 154, 238, 257,
59, 60–62; “Multitudes” cited in,
272; symbolic, 43, 116, 117–18,
63–65; by Shi Ji, 55–56, 57–59,
120–21, 128, 132, 272; in written
60–67; by Zhang Jiuling, 225–26
word, 205; of Zuo Tradition, 16.
reputation, 12, 156, 231. See also
See also imperial power; suasive
literary reputation
power
resentment, 170–71
power figures, 259, 262. See also
rhetorical gesture, 13, 65
authority figures
rhetorical resource, 28, 31, 54, 68,
powerlessness, 11, 87, 92. See also
108. See also speechmaking
impotence
ritual: offering, 59–60; protocol in,
practical sense, 140
27, 31–33, 41, 42–43, 49; reen-
production, see composition; po-
actment, 29–31, 43, 46, 53–54, 68;
etic production
in song performance, 106
propaganda, 92, 115
romance, 204, 257. See also “stolen
protest poems, 217–18, 235, 276. See
love” stories
also remonstration
Rong Ai, 95–96, 99
public discourse, 151, 154
Rong Yu, 270–74
Ruan Fu, 145
Qi, Lady, 82, 84–90 passim; as hu-
Ruan Ji, 133
man swine, 88, 89–90; outburst
Rujia, see Traditionalists
song of, 88–89
rulers: officials and, 18–19, 37; re-
Qiao Zhizhi, 265–67, 271
monstration of, 54–59. See also
Qilin Hall, 207
court; specific rulers by name
Qin dynasty, 41, 48, 68, 73
ruling class, See elite (ruling) class;
Qing Feng, 50–51, 126
official class
Qu, Prince of Guangchuan, 94–99,
Ruyi, Prince of Zhao, 88, 89
101
Quan Tang shi, 203
sadness: separation and, 171
Saussy, Haun, 27 n 13, 192
reader, 178. See also audience
scholars ( oratores) , 19. See also Tra-
Recording the Events of Tang Poems
ditionalists
( Tangshi jishi), 159
self-consciousness, 107
Record of Fine Conversations with
self-deprecation, 36
His Honor Liu, A ( Liu Gong
self-pity, 94
jiahua lu) 182
self-presentation, 85. See also per-
“remarks on poetry,” 159, 188
formance
remonstration ( jian), 54–67, 218–19;
self-referentiality, 241, 250, 256–
admonition ( feng), 173–74,
57
190–91, 218; of Duke Ling, 55–59,
self-representation, 239, 282
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“Semicircular Waters” (“Pan shui”),
slave-master relationship, 127–31,
123
132
sexual love, 204, 282 n 1. See also
“Small Carriages” (“Xiao rong”),
romance
124
shamanistic ritual, 144
snow imagery, 136–37, 141, 152, 153
shame, 116, 119. See also humiliation
social competence, 140, 204
Shang-Yin dynasty, 60–61, 62
social context, 3, 6, 9
Shen Quanqi, 217–18
social engagement, 14
Shen Yue, 175, 248
social status, 259. See also hierarchy
Shi, see Classic of Poetry; Poems
“Son of Heaven,” 45, 48, 65
Shi ji. see Historical Records
song, canonical definition of, 78.
Shi Ji, remonstration by, 55–56,
See also outburst song
57–59, 60–67
Song, Duke of, 22
Shi jing, see Classic of Poetry
Song dynasty, 159
shi poetry, 4–5, 165, 166, 278, 282
“Song of Gaixia” (“Gaixia ge”),
shi yan zhi, 70, 71
73–78, 84–85, 101, 103–4
shihua, see “remarks on poetry”
“Song of Mulian” (“Mulian bian”),
shihua genre, 159, 188
247, 248
Shishuo xinyu, see Topical Tales: A
song performance, see performance
New Edition
Song Zhiwen: “The Milky Way,”
Shu jing, see Classic of Documents
215–17
Shun (emperor), 70
sorrow, 145, 229, 268; song and, 77,
Sima Daozi, 124, 125–26
96, 102, 104, 106
Sima Guang: Comprehensive Mirror
Southern Dynasties, 14, 112, 157, 249,
&
nbsp; for Aid in Government, 161
281
Sima Qian, 106, 109, 224–25;
speaking subject, 3, 4, 7, 8. See also
“Grand Historian’s Account of
narrative
Himself,” 80, 171; Historical
speech, 17, 19
Records, 11, 80–81, 154; “Letter in
speechmaking, citation in, 29–30,
Reply to Ren An,” 80
51–68; remonstration, 54–67,
Sima Zhenzhi, Prince of Liang, 133
190–91
singing girls, 239–41, 242, 254–55,
spirit ( qi) , 217
257; stolen love and, 265–67,
spontaneous performance, 14, 84,
270–73, 274
107, 265; staged performance
Six Dynasties era, 10, 12, 112, 162, 195,
compared, 76–77, 85; suasive
236, 238
power in, 49, 119. See also out-
“Sixth Month” (“Liu yue”), 38–39,
burst song
44, 48
sprezzatura, 26, 135. See also spon-
slave girls, 254–55
taneous performance
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Spring and Autumn Annals
Tang court and, 205–6; wider
( Chunqiu), 16, 21, 72, 165–66, 184
audience for, 233–34; wit in, 245,
stand-up comedy, 50
250; as work-in-progress, 201
state of mind, 41–42, 102, 104, 235,
strange tales, see bizarre accounts
261; of audience, 244; emotion
( zhiguai)
and, 107, 108, 169; theory of
Su Weidao, 245–46
mind and, 39–40, 43
suasive power, 9, 11, 152, 220, 277,
“stolen love” stories, 262–77; loss
278; of music, 70; in perform-
of equilibrium and, 264–65;
ance, 108–9; spontaneity and, 49,
palace ladies and, 262–67,
119
270–73, 274; Rong Yu, 270–74;
suffering, 262; outburst song and,
separation of lovers, 204, 227–28,
81, 98, 99, 101, 218
248, 257–61, 268–70; woman as
Sui Tang jiahua, 161
“literary” object in, 267, 269; Xu
suicide, 75, 93, 265; of Chu Mei, 56,
Deyan, 262–65, 267, 268;
66; of Green Pearl, 266 n 82, 267;
Yaoniang, 265–67, 271
of Prince Xu, 104, 105, 106
Storied Poems ( Benshi shi), 158–202,
Sun Chuo, 144
236, 244; audience in, 194, 233–34;
Sun Fang, 121–23, 132
bizarre tales ( zhiguai) in, 164,
symbolic code, 19
166, 194–97, 200; categories in,
symbolic power, 43, 117–18, 128, 132;
158–59, 185–89; examination
physical violence and, 116,
story in, 230–31; gathering doc-
120–21, 272
trine, 180–81; “Great Preface”
sympathetic response, 89, 93, 101–2,
cited in, 167–68, 170, 171, 173–75,
148, 176, 226
179, 184–85; innovation in, 160,
188; on intent, 167–69, 196,
Taiping guangji, 158
197–98; “Lesser Prefaces” and, 48,
Taizong (Tang emperor), 206,
158, 189, 190–93, 198, 215, 235,
207–8, 215
244–45; Li Bai anecdotes in,
talent ( cai) , 187, 204, 208, 215, 230;
238–44, 248–50, 256; Li Linfu
acknowledgment of, 217; ap-
anecdotes in, 223–26; literary
preciation of, 237; audience
criticism in, 165, 189; oral lit-
sympathy and, 226; display of,
erature and, 181–83; poetic
245, 254; political hierarchy and,
competence in, 10, 13, 164, 172,
241; self-referential competence
199, 203, 277, 279; poetic ex-
and, 250; wit and, 238, 281. See
changes in, 209; preface to, 12–13,
also poetic competence
14, 160, 164–65, 179, 198–202, 244,
Tang dynasty, 14, 157, 162, 174, 181,
277; protest poems in, 235; ro-
204; court of, 205–6, 211, 215;
mance in, 204, 259, 262; search
elite literati of, 13, 158, 203, 281;
for truth in, 163–64, 179, 184, 196;
love narratives, 257; poetic
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power in, 282. See also Storied
“Treatise on Literature” (“Yiwen
Poems
zhi”), 78, 81
Tangshi jishi, 159
truth, search for, 163–64, 179, 184,
Tao Qian, 224, 256
196
Tao Wangqing, 94–95, 98
tetrasyllabic meter, 24, 52, 83–84
urban myth, 164
texts, 1–2, 3
utterance, 2–10, 107, 187, 282; con-
time frame, 104; interval ( jian), 9;
text of, 2–3, 5, 8–10; as locu-
unity of, 80, 94
tionary act, 7–8; musical quality
Topical Tales: A New Edition
of, 167; narrative framework
( Shishuo xinyu), 152, 155, 270;
and, 17, 193; performance and,
audience in, 209; Cao Zhi an-
6–7; poetic competence and, 14,
ecdote in, 113–21; categories in,
16, 42, 47; reception and, 281;
186–87, 188; compilers of, 148;
speaking subject and, 3, 4, 7, 8
cultural competence in, 112–13,
132, 144–45, 147, 156; perform-
values, 20–21. See also morality
ance in, 217; poetic competence
Van Zoeren, Steven, 24 n 8, 193
in, 10, 12, 113, 121–23, 126–27, 132,
Vast Gleanings of the Taiping Era
133, 137, 204, 236, 250, 281; pref-
( Taiping guangji) , 158
ace to, 165; “Speech and Con-
veracity, 163–64, 196. See also truth,
versation,” 135–36; stolen love in,
search for
266 n 82, 267; “Taunting and
violence, 114, 119, 132; in clan com-
Teasing,” 138–39, 188; welling up
petition, 111, 112; symbolic vs.
of feelings in, 176
physical, 116, 120–21, 272. See also
Traditionalists, 11, 15–72, 16, 210,
suicide; warfare
280; Analects and, 22 n 6, 24–26,
voice, 67–68; as aesthetic object, 98;
151; Confucius as, 15–16 n 1, 27;
in speechmaking, 62; unity of,
cultural competence of, 19,
80, 94
23–27, 29, 125, 133; Poems and,
279; remonstration and, 54–67;
Wang Bi, 177
ritual reenactment and, 29–31.
Wang Dao, 138–39
See also Zuo Tradition
Wang Dun, 133–34
Traditional knowledge, 18, 28, 126,
Wang Gong, 145
131, 152; cultural competence and,
Wang Huizhi, 143–44, 150–51,
35, 37, 280; Golden Age and,
152–56
20–21; speechmaking and, 29, 30,
&nb
sp; Wang Ji, 145
31, 52
Wang Rong, 176
trancontextual forces, 8–9
Wang Wei, 268–70
transcendent ecstasy, 144
Wang Xianqian: Zhuangzi jijie, 3–4,
transtextuality, 4
27, 39–40 n 35
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warfare, 22–23, 84–85; martial and
Wusun barbarians, 99–100, 101
civil men, 19, 208, 212, 228
Wuzong (Tang emperor), 243
Wei, Tang empress, 213, 214, 215
Wei clan, 214
Xi, Marquis of Lu, 123
Wei dynasty, 112, 200
Xi Gui, 268 n 85
Wei Xuan, 161; A Record of Fine
Xian, Prince of Ning, 268–69
Conversations with Adviser to
Xiang, Duke of Qin, 59, 124, 125
the Heir Apparent Liu, 162
“Xiang shu,” 51
Wei Xun, 194
Xiang Yu, 112, 118 n 13; “Song of
wen, see cultured men
Gaixia,” 73–78, 84–85, 101, 103–4
Wen, King of Zhou, 55, 60–62
“Xiao rong,” 124
Wen (Wei emperor), 113–19
Xiao Tong, 169
Wen fu, 169
Xiao Wu (Liu Song emperor),
Wen xuan, 169
236–38
Western Han, 10
“Xiao xu,” see “Lesser Preface(s)”
Western Zhou, 16, 20–21, 28, 41, 46
Xiaoman (singing girl), 242, 243
wise counsel, 18
Xie An, 140, 141–43, 147, 148, 149;
wit, 14, 126, 139, 156, 195; friendship
word chain game and, 136–37
and, 245–47, 248, 250, 251–52;
Xie Lang, 136
talent and, 238, 281. See also
Xie Lingyun, 123–24
humor
Xie Xuan, 140, 141–43
women: as “literary” object, 267,
Xie Zhan, 150
269; slave-master relations,
Xie Zhong, 124–26, 132
127–31; stories of exemplary, 185.
Xie Zhuang, 236–38
See also palace concubines/ladies
Xijun, imperial princess, 99–102
“word chain” ( yuci), 135–38
xing, see impulse
written composition, 16, 29 n 17, 93,
Xu, Prince of Guangling, 104–6
205. See also composition of
Xu Deyan, 262–65, 267, 268
poetry
Xuan, Duke, 55
Wu, Duke of Wei, 142
Xuan, King, 41, 45, 48, 65
Wu, King of Zhou, 179
Xuanyuan Miming, 252–54
Wu Chengsi, 265–66, 267
Xuanzong (Tang emperor), 163,
Wu (emperor), 81, 175
183–84, 220–23, 225, 239–43;
Wu Ying: Explanation of Ancient
separated lovers and, 258–59