Ronald Egan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3830422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald Egan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald |
| FAMILY NAME | Egan |
| SIGNATURE | EGAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4970-1505 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Older and Younger Brothers
Here we have a pair of brothers whose relationship is known to us primarily through the hundreds of poems they exchanged with each other through their lives, during which they spent more time apart than together. To have a relationship rooted in literary work this way was not unusual in Chinese life. What was unusual was the fame these particular brothers attained, even while still alive. This article explores the nature of the brothers’ relation…
Recent Developments in Medieval Chinese Literary Research and Pedagogy
In this interview, Professor Egan and I discuss issues related to reception studies, Chinese literary history, translation, and graduate education. The interview begins with the advantages and disadvantages of applying reception studies to premodern Chinese literature and to the works of major writers in particular. We then discuss two recent Chinese literary histories written in English and compare them to mainstream literary history written by …
Poems on Painting from the High Tang to Later Tang Periods
That the practice of inscribing poems on paintings was brought to new prominence during the High Tang period is a well-known aspect of literary history. That poets’ ways of treating paintings in poems changed again in the late eighth and ninth centuries is a less well-known development. This article looks at that change and analyzes several of its manifestations, including new treatments of the “illusion” of painting, the relationship of the pain…
The Purloined Plum and the Heart of Iron
The Purloined Plum and the Heart of Iron:A Contribution to the Flowering Plum Imagery in the in the Song and Yuan Dynasties Maggie Bickford and Charles Hartman Appreciation by Ronald Egan New Appreciation Maggie Bickford and Charles Hartman, "The Purloined Plum and the Heart of Iron: A Contribution to the History of Flowering-Plum Imagery in the Song and Yuan Dynasties," JSYS 26 (1996): 1–54. It is good to be reminded that history exists and even…
Qingtong qi yu Songdai wenhua shi 青銅器與宋代文化史 [Bronze Vessels and Song Dynasty Cultural History], written by Chen Fangmei 陳芳妹
陳芳妹 over the past fifteen years.The volume represents the results of Chen's studies on Song dynasty research into ancient bronze vessels.Chen is a leading scholar in Taiwan in the field of bronze vessels, with a background in early Chinese archaeology.The five lengthy papers in this volume were originally published between 2001 and 2015.Although the topical focus and publication dates of the five papers vary, they revolve around common themes and…
Closer to Home
Yijian zhi, the massive collection of supernatural tales compiled by Hong Mai (1123–1202) in the twelfth century, gives considerable attention to merchant figures and even members of more lowly walks of life (e.g., soldiers, butchers, waiters, and singing girls). This is unexpected since Hong Mai himself was not just an imperial official but a particularly eminent one, whose appointments included Hanlin academician and court historian. Appearing …
A Study of Su Shi's Calligraphy Scroll Containing “Rhapsody on Dongting Spring Colors Wine” and “Rhapsody on Pine Wine of Zhongshan”
This article discusses what is physically the longest of Su Shi's surviving calligraphic scrolls, which joins together his “Rhapsody on Dongting Spring Colors Wine” and “Rhapsody on Pine Wine of Zhongshan” (the scroll is held in the Jilin Provincial Museum). Although most reproductions of Su Shi's calligraphy contain the Two Rhapsodies Scroll, and there are also specialized studies of it, treatments of it are incomplete and inadequate. In additio…
Poems with Contested Meanings
This article explores the phenomenon of Song dynasty poems that have contested meanings in early (Song period) sources. Examples in both the shi and ci poetic forms are given. Each highlights a different aspect of poetic meaning as created and re-created through the interplay of author, poetic persona, provenance claim (whether it comes from author, confidant, independent anecdote, or other record), and commentary or interpretive reading. The exa…
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature
Volume 1: Introduction 1. Early Chinese literature: beginnings through Western Han Martin Kern 2. From the Eastern Han through the Western Jin (AD 25-317) David Knechtges 3. From the Eastern Jin through the Early Tang (317-649) Xiaofei Tian 4. The Cultural Tang (650-1020) Stephen Owen 5. The Northern Song (1020-1126) Ronald Egan 6. North and South: the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Michael Fuller and Shuen-fu Lin 7. Literature from the Late Ji…
The Problem of Beauty
During the Northern Song dynasty (960-1126), new ground was broken in aesthetic thought, particularly in the fields of art collecting, poetry criticism, connoisseurship of flowers, and the song lyric. Collectively these activities constitute much of what was distinctive about Northern Song culture. Yet the subjects treated here were unprecedented when they appeared; consequently, bold exploration was coupled with anxiety about the worth of these …
Chinese Literature, Ancient and Classical
Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Antiquity I. Origins II. one hundred flowers bloom, Let the hundred schools of thought contend! 1. Mo zi and the Logicians : 2. Legalism 3. The Fathers of Taoism III. The Confucian Classics Chapter 2: Prose I. Narrative Art and Historical Records II. The Return of the Style III. The Golden Age of Trivial Literature : IV. Literary Criticism Chapter 3: Poetry I. The Two Sources of Ancient Poetry 1. The Songs of Chu 2…
Limited Views
The Controversy Over Music and "Sadness" and Changing Conceptions of The Qin in Middle Period China
Etude du gout pour la musique melancolique a partir de la dynastie des Han orientaux, puis sous les Wei et le Jin, et de la conception du qin (cithare a cinq ou sept cordes) etroitement liee a l'evolution de ce style musical
This Culture of Ours
Word, Image, and Deed in the Life of Su Shi
The Road to East Slope
Su Shih's "Notes" as a Historical and Literary Source
Ou-yang Hsiu and Su Shih on Calligraphy
The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsiu (1007-72)
The book is a literary study of one of the greatest of Chinese writers, Ou-yang Hsiu. He was a major writer in each of several genres: prose, poetry, rhapsodies, and tz'u 'songs'. The striking diversity of his work presents an opportunity to investigate how one man's literary talent is manifested in different genres. Ou-yang Hsiu's achievements in each genre are examined, and set in the context of his age. Topics include the broad shift between T…
The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsiu (1007-72)
Poems on Paintings
The Prose Style of Fan Yeh
Narratives in Tso Chuan
On The Origin of The Yu hsien k'u Commentary
Ou-yang Hsiu and Su Shih on Calligraphy
The Controversy Over Music and "Sadness" and Changing Conceptions of The Qin in Middle Period China
Etude du gout pour la musique melancolique a partir de la dynastie des Han orientaux, puis sous les Wei et le Jin, et de la conception du qin (cithare a cinq ou sept cordes) etroitement liee a l'evolution de ce style musical
Narratives in Tso Chuan
On The Origin of The Yu hsien k'u Commentary
Narratives in Tso Chuan
The Prose Style of Fan Yeh
Poems on Paintings
The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsiu (1007-72)
The book is a literary study of one of the greatest of Chinese writers, Ou-yang Hsiu. He was a major writer in each of several genres: prose, poetry, rhapsodies, and tz'u 'songs'. The striking diversity of his work presents an opportunity to investigate how one man's literary talent is manifested in different genres. Ou-yang Hsiu's achievements in each genre are examined, and set in the context of his age. Topics include the broad shift between T…
The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsiu (1007-72)
Ou-yang Hsiu and Su Shih on Calligraphy
Su Shih's "Notes" as a Historical and Literary Source
The Road to East Slope
Word, Image, and Deed in the Life of Su Shi
This Culture of Ours
The Controversy Over Music and "Sadness" and Changing Conceptions of The Qin in Middle Period China
Etude du gout pour la musique melancolique a partir de la dynastie des Han orientaux, puis sous les Wei et le Jin, et de la conception du qin (cithare a cinq ou sept cordes) etroitement liee a l'evolution de ce style musical
Limited Views
Chinese Literature, Ancient and Classical
Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Antiquity I. Origins II. one hundred flowers bloom, Let the hundred schools of thought contend! 1. Mo zi and the Logicians : 2. Legalism 3. The Fathers of Taoism III. The Confucian Classics Chapter 2: Prose I. Narrative Art and Historical Records II. The Return of the Style III. The Golden Age of Trivial Literature : IV. Literary Criticism Chapter 3: Poetry I. The Two Sources of Ancient Poetry 1. The Songs of Chu 2…
The Problem of Beauty
During the Northern Song dynasty (960-1126), new ground was broken in aesthetic thought, particularly in the fields of art collecting, poetry criticism, connoisseurship of flowers, and the song lyric. Collectively these activities constitute much of what was distinctive about Northern Song culture. Yet the subjects treated here were unprecedented when they appeared; consequently, bold exploration was coupled with anxiety about the worth of these …
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature
Volume 1: Introduction 1. Early Chinese literature: beginnings through Western Han Martin Kern 2. From the Eastern Han through the Western Jin (AD 25-317) David Knechtges 3. From the Eastern Jin through the Early Tang (317-649) Xiaofei Tian 4. The Cultural Tang (650-1020) Stephen Owen 5. The Northern Song (1020-1126) Ronald Egan 6. North and South: the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Michael Fuller and Shuen-fu Lin 7. Literature from the Late Ji…
A Study of Su Shi's Calligraphy Scroll Containing “Rhapsody on Dongting Spring Colors Wine” and “Rhapsody on Pine Wine of Zhongshan”
This article discusses what is physically the longest of Su Shi's surviving calligraphic scrolls, which joins together his “Rhapsody on Dongting Spring Colors Wine” and “Rhapsody on Pine Wine of Zhongshan” (the scroll is held in the Jilin Provincial Museum). Although most reproductions of Su Shi's calligraphy contain the Two Rhapsodies Scroll, and there are also specialized studies of it, treatments of it are incomplete and inadequate. In additio…
Poems with Contested Meanings
This article explores the phenomenon of Song dynasty poems that have contested meanings in early (Song period) sources. Examples in both the shi and ci poetic forms are given. Each highlights a different aspect of poetic meaning as created and re-created through the interplay of author, poetic persona, provenance claim (whether it comes from author, confidant, independent anecdote, or other record), and commentary or interpretive reading. The exa…
Qingtong qi yu Songdai wenhua shi 青銅器與宋代文化史 [Bronze Vessels and Song Dynasty Cultural History], written by Chen Fangmei 陳芳妹
陳芳妹 over the past fifteen years.The volume represents the results of Chen's studies on Song dynasty research into ancient bronze vessels.Chen is a leading scholar in Taiwan in the field of bronze vessels, with a background in early Chinese archaeology.The five lengthy papers in this volume were originally published between 2001 and 2015.Although the topical focus and publication dates of the five papers vary, they revolve around common themes and…
Closer to Home
Yijian zhi, the massive collection of supernatural tales compiled by Hong Mai (1123–1202) in the twelfth century, gives considerable attention to merchant figures and even members of more lowly walks of life (e.g., soldiers, butchers, waiters, and singing girls). This is unexpected since Hong Mai himself was not just an imperial official but a particularly eminent one, whose appointments included Hanlin academician and court historian. Appearing …
Poems on Painting from the High Tang to Later Tang Periods
That the practice of inscribing poems on paintings was brought to new prominence during the High Tang period is a well-known aspect of literary history. That poets’ ways of treating paintings in poems changed again in the late eighth and ninth centuries is a less well-known development. This article looks at that change and analyzes several of its manifestations, including new treatments of the “illusion” of painting, the relationship of the pain…
The Purloined Plum and the Heart of Iron
The Purloined Plum and the Heart of Iron:A Contribution to the Flowering Plum Imagery in the in the Song and Yuan Dynasties Maggie Bickford and Charles Hartman Appreciation by Ronald Egan New Appreciation Maggie Bickford and Charles Hartman, "The Purloined Plum and the Heart of Iron: A Contribution to the History of Flowering-Plum Imagery in the Song and Yuan Dynasties," JSYS 26 (1996): 1–54. It is good to be reminded that history exists and even…
Older and Younger Brothers
Here we have a pair of brothers whose relationship is known to us primarily through the hundreds of poems they exchanged with each other through their lives, during which they spent more time apart than together. To have a relationship rooted in literary work this way was not unusual in Chinese life. What was unusual was the fame these particular brothers attained, even while still alive. This article explores the nature of the brothers’ relation…
Recent Developments in Medieval Chinese Literary Research and Pedagogy
In this interview, Professor Egan and I discuss issues related to reception studies, Chinese literary history, translation, and graduate education. The interview begins with the advantages and disadvantages of applying reception studies to premodern Chinese literature and to the works of major writers in particular. We then discuss two recent Chinese literary histories written in English and compare them to mainstream literary history written by …
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