Orienting Mimesis
Marriage and the Book of Songs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4370899 |
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| Authors | Tamara T Chin (corresponding author), Tamara Chin |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-79 |
| Publication date | 2006-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2006.94.1.53 |
| OpenAlex | W1986925982 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Modern critics generally locate the beginning of the Chinese aesthetic tradition in the Confucian commentarial repression of the "love and marriage" poems of the Book of Songs. This article argues that these commentators were actually using the Songs to engage with Han dynasty debates about desire, and in doing so formulated a new, gendered way of presenting poems as parables
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Poetry · Asian Studies and History · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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