General Resources and Reading Suggestions

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This is a post to drop titles of and links to relevant reading material, be it nonfiction, poetry we might want to collectively hit up in future or read on our own time, or fiction (including trying to hustle up fresh blood for your latest reading/watching obsessions, and information as to where one can find such titles).

We'll talk about poetry and nonfiction as a group before adding it to the Great Plan. 

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Articles relating to Decade of Dang

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Dang:

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Yi:

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Sang Rou:

Writing and Authority in Early China
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8k4xn8CyHAQC&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=Sang+Rou+poem&source=bl&ots=tH5YUw6kPg&sig=ACfU3U3i_QJkSrSqg0prDPMBSh95Fz0XBg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAsdeIuvTwAhXNOuwKHXvZAUMQ6AEwE3oECBgQAw#v=onepage&q=Sang%20Rou%20poem&f=false

Writing and Rewriting the Poetry
http://cccp.uchicago.edu/archive/2009BookOfOdesSymposium/2009_BookOfOdesSymposium_EdShaughnessy.pdf

The Sinitic Civilization Book I: A Factual History Through the Lens of Archaeology, Bronzeware, Astronomy, Divination, Calendar and the Annals
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=m5F2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT596&lpg=PT596&dq=Sang+Rou+poem+shi+jing&source=bl&ots=yjIq4GfBUu&sig=ACfU3U3CbfubzoCu43wsWHUK5u2Wvjvmiw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiok4eZuvTwAhXHGuwKHS_WACsQ6AEwEXoECB4QAw#v=onepage&q=Sang%20Rou%20poem%20shi%20jing&f=false

Reading Du Fu: Nine Views
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UJ4MEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=Sang+Rou+poem&source=bl&ots=K_4YwWv1L0&sig=ACfU3U2tGEwsVKW7hmVz7imQXwD-Qo0VGw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAsdeIuvTwAhXNOuwKHXvZAUMQ6AEwEnoECBkQAw

Yun Han:

The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cHA7Ey0-pbEC&pg=PA336&lpg=PA336&dq=Yun+Han+poem+shi+jing&source=bl&ots=Y1Fsnv9e_D&sig=ACfU3U3wS7mVhnS0LpeVQiMJxa8lKfgKoA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiivubuxPTwAhWNlqQKHUBPDGQQ6AEwEnoECBwQAw#v=onepage&q=Yun%20Han%20poem%20shi%20jing&f=false

Song Gao:

Authorship and the Shijing | Fate and Heroism in Early Chinese Poetry
https://journals.openedition.org/annuaire-cdf/1785


Curiously, the most visible statements on authorship in these songs are not in the “Airs of the States” (guofeng) that speak intensely, and often emotionally, of personal experience. Instead, they are found mostly in the “Major Court Hymns” (daya) that arose within the ritual institutions of the Zhou royal court. In particular, songs 259 (“Song gao”) and 260 (“Zheng min”) both conclude with a statement that “Jifu made a recitation” in order to influence a named historical figure. These two songs are understood as compositions by Yin Jifu (“Overseer Jifu”), a high Western Zhou official and military leader from around 900 BC who is briefly mentioned also in other sources. In each song, the final quatrain that mentions Jifu as the “reciter” is taken to define the entire text as Jifu’s personal expression. In addition, since Han times the next two songs in the Shijing – 261 (“The Jiang and the Han”) and 262 (“Han yi”) – have been likewise attributed to him. While the authorship of songs 261 and 262 was questioned by later imperial scholars, that of “Song gao” and “Zheng min” remains universally accepted.A close analysis of the four texts raises doubts about Jifu as the author of any of the four songs. With regard to “Song gao” and “Zheng min,” one observes: first, in both songs, the concluding claim about Jifu is formally distinct from the preceding text, separated by a different rhyme; second, in each song, the concluding claim about Jifu as “reciter” (not to mention author) is not related to anything else in the preceding lyrics; third, the songs have no coherent voice but are composite structures of different voices and idioms, including direct royal speech, proverbs, language from administrative documents, poetic phrases found elsewhere in the Shijing, and narrative prose; fourth, while each text is a composite structure of such different voices, the two texts are also considerably different in nature and do not suggest a common author; fifth, both songs show a number of parallels especially to “The Jiang and the Han” and “Han yi”, two texts that are even more densely modeled on administrative documents; sixth, while quotations of “Song gao” and “Zheng min” abound in early texts, these quotations never include the final quatrains; seventh, no early reference to the texts mentions Jifu as author; eighth, when Jifu is mentioned in other sources, he appears as a military leader but never as an author of texts; and ninth, self-referential notions of authorship are exceedingly rare in Shijing – and in pre-imperial sources altogether – suggesting that authorship was not an integral property of such poetry.
Taken together, these observations make a compelling case against Jifu as the author of “Song gao” and “Zheng min,” not to mention “The Jiang and the Han” and “Han yi.” But what do they tell us about the raison d’être for the final quatrains in “Song gao” and “Zheng min”? First, it may be that “Jifu has made a recitation” does not refer at all to authorship but to the mere recitation (song) of the text. Second, the final quatrains are most likely later (if still pre-imperial) additions to the two songs: instead of marking authorship, they merely connect exemplary – and highly non-individual – court compositions with the voice of an exemplary official of high status. As such, the final quatrains of the two songs are retrospective constructions of remembrance and interpretation; they reveal how a later audience imagined the performance of ritual communication at the Western Zhou royal court.

Writing and Rewriting the Poetry
http://cccp.uchicago.edu/archive/2009BookOfOdesSymposium/2009_BookOfOdesSymposium_EdShaughnessy.pdf

These poems are “Si mu” 四牡 (Mao 162), “Jie nan shan” 節南山 (Mao 191), “He ren si” 何人斯 (Mao199), “Xiang bo” 巷伯 (Mao 200), “Si yue” 四月 (Mao 204), “Juan e” 卷阿 (Mao 252), “Sang rou” 桑柔(Mao 257), “Song gao” 崧高 (Mao 259), and “Zheng min” 烝民 (Mao 260), of which “Jie nan shan,”“Xiang bo,” “Song gao” and “Zheng min” mention their “makers” by name (Jiafu 家父 in the first case,Mengzi 孟子 in the second, and Jifu 吉甫 in the last two cases). 

... Even though this inscription is perhaps not the most representative ofWestern Zhou bronze inscriptions to compare with the form of the poem “Jiang Han,”there is more reason than just its date and similar content to consider it: there is somereason to believe that the patron of the vessel, referred to within the inscription variouslyas Xi Jia 兮甲 or as Xibo Jifu 兮伯吉父, is the same figure as the Jifu 吉甫 who takescredit for “making” the two Poetry poems “Song gao” 崧高 (Mao 259) and “Zheng min”烝民 (Mao 260).15

The Sinitic Civilization Book I: A Factual History Through the Lens
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=m5F2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT608&lpg=PT608&dq=Song+Gao+poem+shi+jing&source=bl&ots=yjIq4HjAUu&sig=ACfU3U0D-2C95PWhpkE292aIsKfqyVadyQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDr6j97fTwAhWSPewKHXrSA38Q6AEwEnoECAoQAw#v=onepage&q=Song%20Gao&f=false

Zheng Min:

Writing and Rewriting the Poetry

http://cccp.uchicago.edu/archive/2009BookOfOdesSymposium/2009_BookOfOdesSymposium_EdShaughnessy.pdf

Authorship and the Shijing | Fate and Heroism in Early Chinese Poetryhttps://journals.openedition.org/annuaire-cdf/1785

(see above excerpt from ibid.)

Han Yi:

The Beginning of Literati Poetry: Four Poems from First-century BCE China
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41354685?seq=1

Authorship and the Shijing | Fate and Heroism in Early Chinese Poetry
https://journals.openedition.org/annuaire-cdf/1785
(see above excerpt from ibid.)

An Ever-contested Poem: The "Classic of Poetry"'s "Hanyi" and the Sino-Korean History Debate
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23263430?seq=1

Jiang Han: 

The Homeric Epics and the Chinese Book of Songs: Foundational Texts Compared
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mkern/files/the_formation_of_the_classic_of_poetry_0.pdf

Writing and Rewriting the Poetry
http://cccp.uchicago.edu/archive/2009BookOfOdesSymposium/2009_BookOfOdesSymposium_EdShaughnessy.pdf

(Extensive discussion.)

Authorship and the Shijing | Fate and Heroism in Early Chinese Poetry
https://journals.openedition.org/annuaire-cdf/1785

Chang Wu:

TO LEAVE OR NOT TO LEAVE: THE CHU CI 楚辭 (VERSES OF CHU) AS RESPONSE TO THE SHI JING 詩經 (CLASSIC OF ODES)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/early-china/article/abs/to-leave-or-not-to-leave-the-chu-ci-verses-of-chu-as-response-to-the-shi-jing-classic-of-odes/5C9E66453BC61F6F1A6ABC9803FBAEAE

Writing and Rewriting the Poetry
http://cccp.uchicago.edu/archive/2009BookOfOdesSymposium/2009_BookOfOdesSymposium_EdShaughnessy.pdf

Zhan Yang:Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XAFiDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA239&lpg=PA239&dq=Zhan+Yang+poem+shi+jing&source=bl&ots=u4pyjc82vs&sig=ACfU3U1OtJVC7TRV_rreoc58rOVmZ4T09g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwif6InjgPzwAhWNQUEAHUcjB6YQ6AEwEXoECBIQAw#v=onepage&q=Zhan%20Yang%20poem%20shi%20jing&f=false

Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective: Volume 1: Notions of Literature Across Cultures
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WEcz6xGYW40C&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&dq=Zhan+Yang+poem+shi+jing&source=bl&ots=91FTPiByTx&sig=ACfU3U0H45LD7p1PyXGyq__B5BC5949KiA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwif6InjgPzwAhWNQUEAHUcjB6YQ6AEwEnoECBEQAw#v=onepage&q=Zhan%20Yang%20poem%20shi%20jing&f=false

Shao Min:

The Beginning of Literati Poetry: Four Poems from First-century BCE China
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41354685?seq=1

Words and Images: Chinese Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wJFbPBjj6ucC&pg=PA274&lpg=PA274&dq=Shao+Min+poem&source=bl&ots=JefagT1RS-&sig=ACfU3U0LSGBJCp46uNHvEPaFUEC202oafQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiSnY-bgvzwAhWOSsAKHUHiD_EQ6AEwEXoECBEQAw#v=onepage&q=Shao%20Min%20poem&f=false

A Dialogue between Haizi's Poetry and the Gospel of Luke: Chinese Homecoming and the Relationship with Jesus Christ
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zGZjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=Shao+Min+poem&source=bl&ots=6qBO8YPv57&sig=ACfU3U3aMi7SgNC-HdOMaxpj11qBobz42Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiSnY-bgvzwAhWOSsAKHUHiD_EQ6AEwEnoECBIQAw#v=onepage&q=Shao%20Min%20poem&f=false