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• The body of the fu is not so much an expression of Lu Ji’s local identity as it is an exposition in the style of the Wei-Jin period xuanxue thinkers. The Lao-Zhuang ideas of simplicity, naturalness, and spontaneity are pervasive themes in xuanxue writing in this period. However, Lu Ji is not especially known as a xuanxue thinker……Although pure fiction, the story can be read as another expression of Lu Ji’s identity. Lu Ji was not accomplished in the most prestigious intellectual activity of the northern Wei-Jin elite, xuanxue…… Thus, even though Lu Ji’s “Yushan fu” shows a tinge of xuanxue, he was still a product of a hard-nosed intellectual Wu tradition that preferred investigations of concrete reality to abstruse “obscurantism.” (查看原文)

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• The boundaries of the South in literature are fluid and evolving, and for the purposes of this study we focus not on the geographical “south” but on the cultural “Southland” or “Jiangnan” (literally “south of the Yangtze River”). The Southland is a relative concept, on the margin of the Chinese empire. It is materially exotic, with strange fruits and animals unknown to the northerners, and it is the home of foreign peoples like the Miao and Yue. It is physically and culturally estranged, and yet in the creative and subjective realm of literary expression, also the place where Chinese writers of the medieval period carved out new identities for themselves. In this mutual interaction of southern identity and southern estrangement lies a substantial part of the elite culture of traditional C... (查看原文)

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