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Thinking Through the “Literary Chinese Cosmopolis:” Poetic Glimpses from Ninth Century Silla Korea and Heian Japan
Thinking Through the “Literary Chinese Cosmopolis:” Poetic Glimpses from Ninth Century Silla Korea and Heian JapanXin WeiKorea Foundation Postdoctoral FellowBoston UniversitySheldon Pollock’s vision of a “Sanskrit Cosmopolis” has recently inspired East Asianists to think about the nature of premodern East Asia and the interregional cultural exchange. In this paper I show how to use Pollock’s concept to discover a “Literary Chinese Cosmopolis” with its own distinctive traits. I examine the function of “literary Chinese” as a cosmopolitan poetic language in East Asia, zooming into the ninth century and the appearance of two superlative writers in literary Chinese, Ch’oe Ch’iwŏn from Silla Korea and Sugawara no Michizane from Heian Japan: Ch’oe is celebrated as the founding father of “literature in Chinese” in Korean history, and Michizane is worshiped in the many Tenmangū across Japan as the God of scholarship, one of the top three Shinto cults in modern-day Japan. Together with their Tang contemporary, Pi Rixiu, who joined Huang Chao’s rebellion to overthrow the Tang, I sample each of their poems to show their unique, but time-sensitive, participations in the “Literary Chinese Cosmopolis.” I argue that the conquering and mastering of the Chinese civilization by the “barbarians” is also the underlying reason for the collapse of the Literary Chinese cosmopolis.
When | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm on Tuesday, November 14, 2017 |
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Location | 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 625 |