Sound and Sight-轻识

Review

"Sound and Sight helps us to understand a pivotal period in Chinese poetry and its characteristic style. The formal innovations of the Yongming era, bearing particularly on sound patterns, are a forest of fearsomely technical issues ordinarily left to specialists. As this book demonstrates, "sound" is not just a physical phenomenon, but a mode of perception. Perception in all its modes was a matter of intense interest for the Yongming poets, an area in which their receptivity to Buddhist teaching met their attention to verbal craft; and it is through her attention to the modes of perception made active in the poetry that Meow Hui Goh links literary style with intellectual history."—Haun Saussy, Yale University

"Goh's solidly researched effort to understand the Yongming era through its own aesthetic ideals not only takes a comprehensive approach to the much debated euphonic guidelines, but examines a change in the poet's sense of self-worth and situates major themes in the context of the court's environment and culture."—Cynthia L. Chennault, Editor, Early Medieval China

Product Description

This is the first book to examine Chinese poetry and courtier culture using the concept of shengse—sound and sight—which connotes "sensual pleasure." Under the moral and political imperative to avoid or even eliminate representations of sense perception, premodern Chinese commentators treated overt displays of artistry with great suspicion, and their influence is still alive in modern and contemporary constructions of literary and cultural history.

The Yongming poets, who openly extolled "sound and rhymes," have been deemed the main instigators of a poetic trend toward the sensual. Situating them within the court milieu of their day, Meow Hui Goh asks a simple question: What did shengse mean to the Yongming poets? By unraveling the aural and visual experiences encapsulated in their poems, she argues that their pursuit of "sound and sight" reveals a complex confluence of Buddhist influence, Confucian value, and new sociopolitical conditions. Her study challenges the old perception of the Yongming poets and the common practice of reading classical Chinese poems for semantic meaning only.

吴妙慧（Meow Hui Goh）：美国俄亥俄州立大学（The Ohio State University）东亚语言文学系副教授。专攻中国中古文学与文化研究，目前主要的研究课题包括文学与记忆、现实的建构（reality-making）以及政治宣传（propaganda）等现象的关系。曾先后取得新加坡国立大学中文系本科荣誉学位，香港科技大学人文学部哲学硕士学位，此后继续在美国威斯康辛大学东亚语言文学系深造，并获得博士学位。曾任普林斯顿大学讲师以及斯坦福大学东亚研究中心博士后。学术著作包括专著 Sound and Sight: Poetry and Courtier Culture in the Yongming Era (483-493) 以及 “Genuine Words: Deception as a War Tactic and a Mode o...

译者简介

朱梦雯：南方科技大学人文社科学院人文社科荣誉学会青年会士。主要研究领域为中国中古文学与文化，尤其关注魏晋南北朝时期文学图景与文化场域的变迁，流徙迁移与诗歌表现，以及文学社群等现象。此外，在西方汉学与中国古典诗歌西译等领域亦多有涉猎。曾先后于复旦大学中国古代文学研究中心和香港大学中文学院研读中国中古文学，并分别获得文学硕士和哲学博士学位。曾任香港浸会大学饶宗颐国学院博士后，并曾分别获得哈佛-燕京学社和日本东北大学东北亚研究中心的访问学人项目资助。学术著作包括博士论文“Half-Dead But Half-Alive: Literary Transformation in Late Sixth-Century China”以及《〈神州〉之馨：埃兹拉·庞德〈天津桥畔作诗〉刍论》《“伤逝”书写与文学社群：以建安时期（196–220）的数篇〈寡妇赋〉为核心》等期刊论文。