Place Imagery of Taiwan—Spatial Writing of Chinese Literati From Ming and Qing Dynasty (1651-1895)

Autor: Hui-FengShin, 申惠豐
Rok vydání: 2013
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 101
This study employs classical poetry and literary works created by writers who traveled to Taiwan during the Ming-Zheng Period and the Qing Dynasty period in Taiwan and explores how these works shaped Taiwan’s regional or local images and relevant significance. The first chapter introduces the methodology adopted in the study and elaborates on the connotations of spatial analysis theory. Chapter 2 reviews poems written by adherents to the Ming dynasty who traveled to Taiwan during the Ming-Zheng Period, describing the interpretations and imaginings of Taiwan’s spatial area presented in these works and how these works express political views in a context of Ming restorationism. Chapter 3 details how symbolic rhetoric of empirical civilization is established through landscape representation by analyzing early Qing period “eight view poetry” in Taiwan. Subsequently, Chapter 4 introduces Yu Yonghe’s Small Sea Travel Records as an example to evince how Taiwan’s special spatial attributes affected the author’s aesthetic perspective and the aesthetic expression in his works. Chapters 5 and 6 independently present Yang Tingli and Liu Gumou’s works to investigate how the authors used writing and living spaces to construct and establish identification and the self in a scattered and disparate environment. Next, the travel diaries of Shi Jiulong and Jiang Shiche are discussed in Chapter 7 to explain how, during the critical moment of intersection between the modern and pre-modern at the end of the Qing period, Taiwan’s spatial attributes transformed, and the significance and image of Taiwan in the eyes of literati who travel to Taiwan. Finally, Chapter 8 offers a conclusion. In addition to providing a summary regarding previous discussions, a description of the delicate and subtle relationship between literary creation and region and space is presented.
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