The Decadent Chalice

The motif of decadence has a long history in Chinese literary and political rhetoric. It is bound up with the idea of restoration, of revival. In the Analects Confucius deploys this by invoking the decline of proper ritual forms and observances as indicative of the overall decay of civil morality and governmental order. The use of an idealized antiquity as a foil for criticizing contemporary society or politics is evident in such later writers as Han Yu (768–824), for whom, as Charles Hartman notes, the distant past was an almost spiritual state, which Han Yu equated with his hopes for the immediate future. His goal in literary and moral cultivation was to return to antiquity (fugu). The interval between ancient times and the present was one of decline. Stephen Owen has also written extensively about the images of ruins or other vestiges of antiquity in Chinese literature as foci for memory and lament, as well as inspirations for renewal

Art · Decadence · Lament · Literature · Morality · Politics · Rhetoric · Theology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy

• The Inscription of Remnant Things

  Thomas Kelly•Late imperial China•2021

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• Opposition to the Donglin Faction in the Late Ming Dynasty

  Harry Miller•Late imperial China•2006

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• The Global Circulation of the Literatures of Decadence

  Open Access•Regenia Gagnier•Literature Compass•2013

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• An Age of Exalted Harmony? Deciphering the Contested Historiography of the Jingtai Reign

  Aaron Throness•Ming Studies•2021

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• Public Discourse and Private Sentiment

  Yiming Ha•Ming Studies•2022

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• The Situationist Critique and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics

  Edward Slingerland•Ethics•2011

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• Superfluous Things

  Jonathan Spence, Craig Clunas•Design Issues•1995

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• Confucianism and Autocracy

  John W Dardess•Confucianism and Autocracy•1983

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• Confucius, The Analects

  Robert E Hegel, D C Lau et al.•Chinese Literature Essays…•1984

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• Remembrances

  Stephen Owens, Stephen Owen•Remembrances•1986

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• The Ming Dynasty

  Open Access•Charles Hucker•Ming Dynasty•1978

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• Superfluous Things

  Craig Clunas•Superfluous Things•1991

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• The Cambridge History of China

  Open Access•Denis Crispin Twitchett, John King Fairbank et al.•The Cambridge history of China•1988

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• Han Yu and the T'ang Search for Unity

  Charles Hartman•Han Yu and the T'ang Search for…•1986

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• A Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China

  John Κ Fairbank, J K Fairbank•Ming Studies•1985

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• Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry

  Jonathan Chaves•Ming Studies•1989

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• Early Ming China

  John W Dardess, John Dardess•Ming Studies•1982

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• Han Yu and the T'ang Search for Unity

  Jo-Shui Chen, Charles Hartman•Philosophy East and West•1990

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• Early Ming China

  John D Langlois, Edward L Dreyer•Journal of the American Oriental…•1985

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• Confucianism and Autocracy

  Edward L Farmer, John W Darde et al.•The Journal of Interdisciplinary…•1985

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• Statesmen and Gentlemen

  Thomas H C Lee, Robert Hymes et al.•Journal of the American Oriental…•1989

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• Municipal Reform and Urban Social Conflict in Late Ming Jiangnan

  Open Access•Richard Von Glahn•The Journal of Asian Studies•1991

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• The Ming Dynasty

  James F Millinger, Charles O Hucker•Pacific Affairs•1979

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