A General Survey of Song-Poetry (Sanqu) of Yuan China (1260-1368)

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73452-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 572 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1098 g

Reihe: Brill's Humanities in China Library

This book provides a survey of Yuan sanqu, with its principal sections focusing on fundamental theories, compositional features, and historical evolution. Its treatment of qu criticism and bibliography offers a comprehensive perspective on the defining characteristics of sanqu. Serving both as a general overview of sanqu and a foundation for future research, this publication explores this unique yet historically marginalized genre of song-poetry. It generates new insights through textual analysis and the nuanced discussion of dualistic concepts, such as the interplay between literature and music, the Song and Yuan dynasties, and the relationship between ci-lyrics and song-poetry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhao, Yishan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Zhou, Rui

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Sanqu Studies in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: a Foreword

Translator’s Acknowledgement

Introduction

1 The Formation of Northern Qu-Genre 1.1 The Notion of Formation of Northern Qu during Late Imperial China 1.2 The Formation of Song-Music of Northern Qu 1.3 The Formation of Literary Style of Northern Qu 1.4 The Critical Turn of Ci-Lyrics to Qu and Customisation of Northern Qu System

2 The Tune Patterns and Musical Modes of Northern Qu 2.1 The Musical Modes 2.2 The Tune Patterns

3 The Generic Forms of Yuan Song-Poetry (Sanqu) 3.1 The Historical Evolution of the Title Names of Yuan Sanqu 3.2 The Single-Stanza Songs (Xiaoling) 3.3 The Binary Form Songs (Daiguoqu) 3.4 The Song Suite Songs (Taoshu) 3.5 The Song Suites in Northern and Southern Joint Style

4 The Stylistic Features of Yuan Sanqu 4.1 The “Padding Words” of Yuan Sanqu 4.2 The Language of Yuan Sanqu 4.3 The Rhymes of Yuan Sanqu 4.4 The Antithesis and Reiteration of Yuan Sanqu 4.5 “Bravo” (Wutou)

5 Yuan Sanqu and Yuan Zaju 5.1 The Chronological Sequence of Sanqu and Juqu 5.2 The Influence of Sanqu on Northern Zaju 5.3 The Influence of Zaju on Sanqu

6 The Details on Yuan Sanqu Writers and Their Communal Features 6.1 The Officials 6.2 The Non-officialdom Talented Scholars 6.3 The Non-Han Ethnic-Minority Writers 6.4 The Singsong Girls

7 The Evolving Stage of Yuan Sanqu 7.1 The Status of Qu Communities and Compositional Characteristics of Sanqu 7.2 The Composition of Representative Qu Writers in the Evolving Stage

8 The Flourishing Stage of Yuan Sanqu 8.1 The Overview of Sanqu Composition in the Flourishing Stage 8.2 Three Masters 8.3 The Other Representative Qu-Writers

9 The Peaking Stage of Yuan Sanqu 9.1 The Overview of Composition of Sanqu and Styles of Schools 9.2 The Representative Qu-Writers of the Heroic Haofang School 9.3 The Other Qu-Writers of the Heroic Haofang School 9.4 The Representative Qu-Writers of the Elegant Qingli School 9.5 The Other Qu-Writers of the Elegant Qingli School

10 The Declining Stage of Yuan Sanqu 10.1 The Outline of Composition of Sanqu 10.2 The Representative Qu-Writers

11 Qu Criticism in Yuan China 11.1 On Aria-Singing 11.2 On Song-Composing 11.3 On Origins 11.4 On Styles

12 Bibliography of Studies on Yuan Sanqu 12.1 The Corpus of Song-Poetry 12.2 The Criticism of Song-Poetry 12.3 Formularies of Qu

Reference Matter

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Zhao Yishan, Ph.D. (2004), Sichuan University, is an emeritus professor of Chinese literature at Sichuan Normal University. He has published monographs and articles on traditional Chinese qu studies and song-poetry (sanqu) of late imperial China, including A General Survey of Song-Poetry of Yuan China (Bashu, 1993; rev. Shanghai guji, 2004/2023), A History of Song-Poetry of Ming-Qing China (Renmin, 2007).

Zhou Rui, Ph.D. (2007), Sichuan University, is an associate professor of Chinese literature and a Sinological translator at Southwest University, China. He has published monographs and many articles on pre-modern Chinese literature and Sinological studies, his translated works including Tian Yuan Tan’s Songs of Contentment and Transgression (2021), Grace S. Fong's Herself an Author (2024), Song Geng's The Fragile Scholar (2024), and Yugen Wang's Writing Poetry, Surviving War (2024).