Do the parts add up? textual systems and segments of Sijie ji 四節記 (Four Seasons) in Ming Anthologies
Sijie ji 四節記 (The Four Seasons) is a set of four plays believed to have been composed in the mid Ming. Each of the four plays is based on an episode related to a season in the lives of four famous literati: Du Fu (spring), Xie An (summer), Su Shi (autumn), and Tao Gu (winter) respectively. The full...
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Shi He Zheng Folk Culture Foundation, Taiwan
2024
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| description | Sijie ji 四節記 (The Four Seasons) is a set of four plays believed to have been composed in
the mid Ming. Each of the four plays is based on an episode related to a season in the lives of
four famous literati: Du Fu (spring), Xie An (summer), Su Shi (autumn), and Tao Gu (winter)
respectively. The full texts of the plays are no longer extant, but because they were widely
popular in the Ming dynasty, excerpts of various shapes and forms can be found in more than
twenty qu anthologies dating from as early as 1553. In other words, Sijie ji is a lost work of
which only certain parts are preserved, and exclusively so, through anthologies. How, for a
work whose partial survival is closely connected to anthologies, do we approach this body of
disparate, anthologized drama parts that all appear to be associated with Sijie ji? This paper
explores the significance of reading these segments of Sijie ji not necessarily as parts of an
elusive whole, but instead as individual meaningful textual units belonging to more than one
textual system, and considers the role of anthologies in the textual relations and circulation of
knowledge within qu texts and across various genres. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:d9b99834-d93f-425b-b19c-1e3ded5e9acd2025-03-03T09:16:22ZDo the parts add up? textual systems and segments of Sijie ji 四節記 (Four Seasons) in Ming AnthologiesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:d9b99834-d93f-425b-b19c-1e3ded5e9acdEnglishSymplectic ElementsShi He Zheng Folk Culture Foundation, Taiwan2024Tan, TYSijie ji 四節記 (The Four Seasons) is a set of four plays believed to have been composed in the mid Ming. Each of the four plays is based on an episode related to a season in the lives of four famous literati: Du Fu (spring), Xie An (summer), Su Shi (autumn), and Tao Gu (winter) respectively. The full texts of the plays are no longer extant, but because they were widely popular in the Ming dynasty, excerpts of various shapes and forms can be found in more than twenty qu anthologies dating from as early as 1553. In other words, Sijie ji is a lost work of which only certain parts are preserved, and exclusively so, through anthologies. How, for a work whose partial survival is closely connected to anthologies, do we approach this body of disparate, anthologized drama parts that all appear to be associated with Sijie ji? This paper explores the significance of reading these segments of Sijie ji not necessarily as parts of an elusive whole, but instead as individual meaningful textual units belonging to more than one textual system, and considers the role of anthologies in the textual relations and circulation of knowledge within qu texts and across various genres. |
| spellingShingle | Tan, TY Do the parts add up? textual systems and segments of Sijie ji 四節記 (Four Seasons) in Ming Anthologies |
| title | Do the parts add up? textual systems and segments of Sijie ji 四節記 (Four Seasons) in Ming Anthologies |
| title_full | Do the parts add up? textual systems and segments of Sijie ji 四節記 (Four Seasons) in Ming Anthologies |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Do the parts add up? textual systems and segments of Sijie ji 四節記 (Four Seasons) in Ming Anthologies |
| title_short | Do the parts add up? textual systems and segments of Sijie ji 四節記 (Four Seasons) in Ming Anthologies |
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