Du Fu

Jue Chen, Ph.D. (2016), Princeton University, is Assistant Professor of Chinese at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has co-authored a book on Song dynasty Chan poetry and published several articles on medieval Chinese literature.

Contents


Acknowledgments


Note to the Reader





Introduction


 1 Du Fu’s Image and Du Fu in Reception History Studies


 2 Du Fu and the Song Literati Culture


 3 Overview of the Book





1 Memory of Du Fu before the Mid-Eleventh Century


 1 The “Li Du” Juxtaposition and “Li/Du” Dichotomy


 2 Hard Life


 3 Association with Shu


 4 Relationship with Yan Wu


 5 Death in Water





2 A Collected Poet


 1 Wang Zhu’s Edition and the “Wu Ruo Edition”


 2 Collecting Du Fu’s Poems


 3 Biannian and Nianpu


 4 Biannian as Biographical Narrative and Critical Perspective





3 “Shishi” and Reading Du Fu as History


 1 Reading Strategies and Authorial Image


 2 Reading Shishi: Human Emotions and Realistic Concerns


 3 How Du Fu Wrote Shishi: Rhetoric and Moralization


 4 Metamorphosis and Negotiation of Shishi





4 Reading Du Fu in the Song Political Culture


 1 The Basic Tone for Du Fu Criticism: Tradition and Reality


 2 Wang Hui’s Reading of Certain Poems by Du Fu


 3 “Never Forgetting the Emperor Even during a Meal”


 4 Reading Du Fu in Political Vicissitudes


 5 Metamorphosis of Du Fu’s Loyalist Image in Southern Song





5 The Poetic Craftsman


 1 Words and Allusions for Expression of Poetic Ideas


 2 Rules and Standards


 3 Toward a Narrative of Poetic Transition from Tang to Song





Conclusion: Making China’s Greatest Poet


 1 Song Poets’ Desire for Influence


 2 Du Fu in the Historical Changes in the Song


 3 “China’s Greatest Poet”


Bibliography


Index