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New Poetry from the Turquoise Pond: Women Poets in Eighth and Ninth Century China
Ist Teil von
Tʻang studies, 2019-01, Vol.37 (1), p.59-80
Ort / Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
The Yaochi xinyong ji (Anthology of New Poetry from the Turquoise Pond; hereafter Yaochi ji) compiled by Cai Xingfeng in the ninth-century is the only anthology of women's poetry from the Tang era. Supported by relevant Dunhuang manuscripts, Tang-Song anthologies of poetry, and other early sources, this article for the first time reconstructs the Yaochi ji, originally containing 115 poems by twenty-three female poets, to 100 poems with names of all twenty-three authors, who were active roughly around the mid-eighth to mid-ninth centuries. The socio-historical and religio-cultural context during this period provided certain favorable conditions for these writing women. Unlike the mainly aristocratic background of earlier female poets, the Yaochi ji poets came from a variety of social strata. They exchanged poems among female relatives and friends, representing the possible emergence of a women's culture, and their works are distinguished by the rich variety of their subject matter, themes, genres, and styles. As the earliest extant anthology of Chinese women, the Yaochi ji represents a significant new stage in the development and accomplishment of Chinese women's literature and culture.