New Shoes and Trimmed Feet: The Formation of the Modern Canon of Tang Dynasty Prose

This article examines the changing significance of Tang prose as represented within literary histories of China authored across the first four decades of the twentieth-century. It argues that broader shifts in the content, methodological approach, and pedagogical objectives of literary study during...

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Published in:Tʻang studies 2009-12, Vol.2009 (27), p.66-89
Main Author: Ditter, Alexei
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
CHINESE LITERARY HISTORY
GENRE
LITERATURE AND EDUCATION
TANG PROSE
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Summary:This article examines the changing significance of Tang prose as represented within literary histories of China authored across the first four decades of the twentieth-century. It argues that broader shifts in the content, methodological approach, and pedagogical objectives of literary study during the formation of the modern discipline of Chinese literature led to the increasing marginalization of Tang prose within the canon. It suggests that due consideration of the underlying polemics that shaped modern study of Tang literature during its formation can help contextualize and support emerging critiques of inherited categories, priorities, and critical commonplaces in the field today.
ISSN:0737-5034
1759-7633
DOI:10.1179/073750309X12532709493272