Songs of contentment and transgression: discharged officials and literati communities in sixteenth-century north china
Auteur :
Tan, Tian Yuan
Éditeur :
Harvard University, Asia Center
ISBN :
9780674056046
Date de publication :
31 oct. 2010
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,8 cm
Poids :
567 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This book explores three discharged Ming officials in the sixteenth century—Wang Jiusi, Kang Hai, and Li Kaixian—who turned to literary endeavors when forced to retire. As their efforts reveal, a disappointing end to an official career and a physical move away from the center led to their embrace and pursuit of a marginalized literary genre, qu.