{"product_id":"drifting-among-rivers-and-lakes-michael-a-fuller-9780674073227","title":"Drifting Among Rivers and Lakes: Southern Song Dynasty Poetry and the Problem of Literary History","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat drives literary change? Does literature merely follow shifts in a culture, or does it play a distinctive role in shaping emergent trends? Michael Fuller explores these questions while examining the changes in Chinese \u003ci\u003eshi\u003c\/i\u003e poetry from the late Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) to the end of the Southern Song (1127-1279), a period of profound social and cultural transformation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eShi\u003c\/i\u003e poetry written in response to events was the dominant literary genre in Song dynasty China, serving as a central form through which literati explored meaning in their encounters with the world. By the late Northern Song, however, old models for meaning were proving inadequate, and\u003ci\u003e Daoxue\u003c\/i\u003e (Neo-Confucianism) provided an increasingly attractive new ground for understanding the self and the world. \u003ci\u003eDrifting among Rivers and Lakes\u003c\/i\u003e traces the intertwining of the practice of poetry, writings on poetics, and the debates about \u003ci\u003eDaoxue\u003c\/i\u003e that led to the cultural synthesis of the final years of the Southern Song and set the pattern for Chinese society for the next six centuries. Examining the writings of major poets and Confucian thinkers of the period, Fuller discovers the slow evolution of a complementarity between poetry and \u003ci\u003eDaoxue\u003c\/i\u003e in which neither discourse was self-sufficient.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael A. Fuller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674073223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674073227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/25\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 538\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.36h x 6.38w x 1.67d","brand":"Michael A. Fuller","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086759080191,"sku":"9780674073227","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_76d7778e-36af-48bf-83fd-e1c23a5d94c3.jpg?v=1769096410","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/drifting-among-rivers-and-lakes-michael-a-fuller-9780674073227","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}