Over the centuries, early Chinese classical poetry became embedded
in a chronological account with great cultural resonance and came
to be transmitted in versions accepted as authoritative. But modern
scholarship has questioned components of the account and cast doubt
on the accuracy of received texts. The result has destabilized the
study of early Chinese poetry.
This study adopts a double approach to the poetry composed
between the end of the first century b.c.e. and the third century
c.e. First, it examines extant material from this period
synchronically, as if it were not historically arranged, with some
poems attached to authors and some not. By setting aside putative
differences of author and genre, Stephen Owen argues, we can see
that this was "one poetry," created from a shared poetic repertoire
and compositional practices. Second, it considers how the scholars
of the late fifth and early sixth centuries selected this material
and reshaped it to produce the standard account of classical
poetry.
As Owen shows, early poetry comes to us through
reproduction--reproduction by those who knew the poem and
transmitted it, by musicians who performed it, and by scribes and
anthologists--all of whom changed texts to suit their needs.
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