The Halberd at Red Cliff

作者：Xiaofei Tian

副标题：Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms

出版社：Harvard University Asia Center

出版年：2018-01

ISBN：9780674977037

行业：其它

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内容简介

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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作者简介

Xiaofei Tian is Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University.

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读书文摘

11世纪的文化想象从铜雀台转向了铜雀台的提喻式瓦解：号称来自原始铜雀台的陶瓦被制成砚台，在古董市场上卖出昂贵的价钱。这一转型体现了人们与历史的关系在发生改变：与铜雀台诗不同，在铜雀砚诗中，我们看不到任何对历史人物的同情；在一片强烈的道德义愤中，历史变成了一件古玩，一件可以被伪造、认证、买卖和拥有的商品。

宴饮诗歌似乎总是与死亡联系在一起，无论是人生无常的想法迫人转向饮酒作乐，还是乐极生悲，在酒宴高潮时想到了欢乐与人生的短暂。在很多古代文化里，饮宴和死亡以及葬礼息息相关。但在曹丕的回忆中，饮宴不仅仅是体验无常的场所，而且其本身亦成为丧亡的象喻，因为酒宴在疫情蔓延的当下语境中，已然被重置于一个失落的过去。

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