2023-2024 Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture - Haun Saussy
| dc.contributor.author | Saussy, Haun | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-05T20:29:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-02-05T20:29:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-11-01 | |
| dc.description | Video of full lecture with presentation slides edited into the video. | |
| dc.description.abstract | The East Asia Program is honored to have Haun Saussy, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago give this year's Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture: "Exile As Formative Experience in Classical Chinese Poetry." The “myth of loyalty and dissent” (as Laurence Schneider put it) surrounding the figure of Qu Yuan has structured a great many self-representations by cast-off officials. But when poets banished to the margins of the empire adopt Qu Yuan as a source of style and allusion, the result is, often enough, a gain in descriptive and evocative power. By calling the experience of exile “formative” in the cases of Xie Lingyun 謝靈運, Shen Quanqi 沈全期, Song Zhiwen 宋之問, and Su Shi 蘇軾, I aim to put biography in second place. What occupies the foreground is rather the fashioning of transpersonal roles and attitudes that could be adopted by later poets— replicating the author-function that had made Qu Yuan such a powerful reference. Professor Saussy's primary teaching and research interests include classical Chinese poetry and commentary, literary theory, comparative study of oral traditions, problems of translation, pre-twentieth-century media history, and ethnography and ethics of medical care. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Cornell East Asia Program, the Departments of Asian Studies, History, and the Cornell Society for the Humanities. | |
| dc.description.viewer | 1_w4drhb0i | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/114200 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | East Asia Program, Cornell University | |
| dc.relation.hasversion | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp_2HW_B49E | |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | History | |
| dc.subject | East Asia | |
| dc.subject | China | |
| dc.subject | Translation | |
| dc.subject | Chinese poetry | |
| dc.title | 2023-2024 Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture - Haun Saussy | |
| dc.title.alternative | Exile As Formative Experience in Classical Chinese Poetry | |
| dc.type | video/moving image | |
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