Date:
Monday, January 22, 2007.
12:00 PM.<BR/>
Location: Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall, 3rd Floor<BR/><BR/>
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<p><font color="8B0000" size="h4"> David R. Knechtges, Professor of Chinese Literature, <br>University of Washington</font></p>
<p>Historians have noted that one of the important developments in the late medieval period of Chinese history--that is from the late third century to the seventh century of the Common Era--is the emergence of the private landed estate. When the northern elites went south after 317, some settled in the coastal Zhejiang areas of Guiji and Linhai where they established large estates variously called bieshu (separate villa), shan shu (mountain villa) or simply shu (villa). The most detailed account of an early medieval Chinese estate is actually contained not in an historical source, but in a long poem, "Fu on Dwelling in the Mountains," by Xie Lingyun (385- 433). In his talk, Professor Knechtges shall focus on what Xie tells about his estate in this poem.</p>
<p>David R. Knechtges is Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Washington. He is the author of Two Studies of the Han Fu (1968), The Han Rhapsody: A Study of the Fu of Yang Hsiung (53 B.C.- A.D.18) (1976), The Han shu Biography of Yang Xiong (1982), Wen-xuan or Selections of Refined Literature. Volume One. Rhapsodies on Metropolises and Capitals (1982), Wen xuan or Selections of Refined Literature. Volume Two. Rhapsodies on Sacrifices, Hunts, Travel, Palaces and Halls, Rivers and Seas (1987), Wen xuan, Volume Three (1996), Editor and cotranslator, Gong Kechang. Studies of the Han Fu (1997), Court Culture and Literature in Early China (2002), Co-editor, with Paul Kroll. Studies in Early Medieval Chinese Literature and Cultural History (2003), Co-editor, with Eugene Vance, Rhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court Culture, East and West, 2005.</p><BR/>
Monday, January 22, 2007.
12:00 PM.<BR/>
Location: Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall, 3rd Floor<BR/><BR/>
<p><font size="h3"><i>CEAS China Brown Bag</font></i>
<p><font color="8B0000" size="h4"> David R. Knechtges, Professor of Chinese Literature, <br>University of Washington</font></p>
<p>Historians have noted that one of the important developments in the late medieval period of Chinese history--that is from the late third century to the seventh century of the Common Era--is the emergence of the private landed estate. When the northern elites went south after 317, some settled in the coastal Zhejiang areas of Guiji and Linhai where they established large estates variously called bieshu (separate villa), shan shu (mountain villa) or simply shu (villa). The most detailed account of an early medieval Chinese estate is actually contained not in an historical source, but in a long poem, "Fu on Dwelling in the Mountains," by Xie Lingyun (385- 433). In his talk, Professor Knechtges shall focus on what Xie tells about his estate in this poem.</p>
<p>David R. Knechtges is Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Washington. He is the author of Two Studies of the Han Fu (1968), The Han Rhapsody: A Study of the Fu of Yang Hsiung (53 B.C.- A.D.18) (1976), The Han shu Biography of Yang Xiong (1982), Wen-xuan or Selections of Refined Literature. Volume One. Rhapsodies on Metropolises and Capitals (1982), Wen xuan or Selections of Refined Literature. Volume Two. Rhapsodies on Sacrifices, Hunts, Travel, Palaces and Halls, Rivers and Seas (1987), Wen xuan, Volume Three (1996), Editor and cotranslator, Gong Kechang. Studies of the Han Fu (1997), Court Culture and Literature in Early China (2002), Co-editor, with Paul Kroll. Studies in Early Medieval Chinese Literature and Cultural History (2003), Co-editor, with Eugene Vance, Rhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court Culture, East and West, 2005.</p><BR/>