Visionary Journeys
内容简介
This book explores the parallel and yet profoundly different ways of seeing the outside world and engaging with the foreign at two important moments of dislocation in Chinese history, namely, the early medieval period commonly known as the Northern and Southern Dynasties (317–589 CE), and the nineteenth century. Xiaofei Tian juxtaposes literary, historical, and religious materials from these two periods in comparative study, bringing them together in their unprecedentedly large-scale interactions, and their intense fascination, with foreign cultures.
By examining various cultural forms of representation from the two periods, Tian attempts to sort out modes of seeing the world that inform these writings. These modes, Tian argues, were established in early medieval times and resurfaced, in permutations and metamorphoses, in nineteenth-century writings on encountering the Other. This book is for readers who are interested not only in early medieval or nineteenth-century China but also in issues of representation, travel, visualization, and modernity.
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作者简介
Xiaofei Tian is Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University.
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目录
Acknowledgments
Notes on Sources
Introduction
I. Visionary Journeys
Prologue
1. Seeing with the Mind’s Eye
2. Journeys to Other Worlds
3. Xie Lingyun, Poet of Purgatory
Coda
Interlude
II. Encountering the World
Prologue
4. The Rhetorical Schemata of Seeing
5. Poetry and Experience in the Nineteenth Century
Afterword
Appendixes
1. Translation of Xie Lingyun’s “Fu on My Journey” (“Zhuanzheng fu”)
2. Translation of the Story of Shi Changhe
Reference Matter
Bibliography
Index
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读书文摘
斌椿和张德彝的叙述直接受到传统观看异域模式的影响。同时，这个叙述也是现代城市版图构建的结果：在那里，天堂和地域往往只有一街之隔。采取二分法来观看异域——福地、恶土、或两者兼有——是相当容易做到的；但是，超越这个或神仙或鬼怪的二分模式，用人间和人性的视角来观看和理解西方，这对于十九世纪的中国游客来说是困难的挑战。
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