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The Halberd at Red Cliff - Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms (Hardcover)
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The Halberd at Red Cliff - Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms (Hardcover)
Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
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The turn of the third century CE-known as the Jian'an era or Three
Kingdoms period-holds double significance for the Chinese cultural
tradition. Its writings laid the foundation of classical poetry and
literary criticism. Its historical personages and events have also
inspired works of poetry, fiction, drama, film, and art throughout
Chinese history, including Internet fantasy literature today. There
is a vast body of secondary literature on these two subjects
individually, but very little on their interface. The image of the
Jian'an era, with its feasting, drinking, heroism, and literary
panache, as well as intense male friendship, was to return time and
again in the romanticized narrative of the Three Kingdoms. How did
Jian'an bifurcate into two distinct nostalgias, one of which was
the first paradigmatic embodiment of wen (literary graces, cultural
patterning), and the other of wu (heroic martial virtue)? How did
these largely segregated nostalgias negotiate with one another? And
how is the predominantly male world of the Three Kingdoms
appropriated by young women in contemporary China? The Halberd at
Red Cliff investigates how these associations were closely related
in their complex origins and then came to be divergent in their
later metamorphoses.
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