Poetry and Politics is the first full-length study in any language of the life and works of the Chinese poet and thinker, Juan Chi (AD 210-263). This book contains translations of all Juan Chi's important works, in verse and prose, his letters and all the historical accounts of his life. The reader is thus enabled, for the first time in a work of this kind, to see a Chinese writer in the round, in his works and in his setting. Juan Chi's attachment to traditional Confucian values kept him in the centre of political and social life, but eventually his disgust with the disloyalty and self-seeking he saw in Wei society made him turn away. He attempted in Taoism and in the pursuit of Taoist immortality to find the purity and permanence so lacking in the world, but without an ultimate commitment. Juan Chi was accused both in his lifetime and subsequently of being a Confucian hero and a Taoist iconoclast, and in him can be seen the contradictory intellectual and religious forces t hat were slowly bringing in the Chinese Middle Ages.
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Poetry and Politics is the first full-length study in any language of the life and works of the Chinese poet and thinker, Juan Chi (AD 210-263). This book contains translations of all Juan Chi's important works, in verse and prose, his letters and all the historical accounts of his life.
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The third century A.D. was one of the great turning points in Chinese history, a period of changes in all aspects of human life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Juan Chi, Huang Chieh, Ssu-ma Chao, Ts'ao Ts'ao, Great Man, Hsi K'ang, Ts'ao Shuang, Chiang Shih-yüeh, Ts'ao Jui, Shu Ch'i, Sun Teng, Ts'ao Mao, Tseng Kuo-fan, Master Great, Ts'ao Fang, Wang-tzu Ch'iao, Ts'ao P'i, Teng Forest, Ch'en Hang, Ssu-ma Shih, Chiang Chi, Western Mountains, Ch'en Tso-ming, True Man, Yen Yen-chih Browse Sample Pages:
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The third century A.D. was one of the great turning points in Chinese history, a period of changes in all aspects of human life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
Ch'ü Yüan, yellow crane, saintly music, solitary wild goose, pentameter poetry, mystical escape, ten thousand beings, immortal woman Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Juan Chi, Huang Chieh, Ssu-ma Chao, Ts'ao Ts'ao, Great Man, Hsi K'ang, Ts'ao Shuang, Chiang Shih-yüeh, Ts'ao Jui, Shu Ch'i, Sun Teng, Ts'ao Mao, Tseng Kuo-fan, Master Great, Ts'ao Fang, Wang-tzu Ch'iao, Ts'ao P'i, Teng Forest, Ch'en Hang, Ssu-ma Shih, Chiang Chi, Western Mountains, Ch'en Tso-ming, True Man, Yen Yen-chih Browse Sample Pages:
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