Drifting with Clouds, Living by Poetry

Download or read book Drifting with Clouds, Living by Poetry written by Hongsheng Zhang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did poets from the "Rivers and Lakes," a realm defined by its remoteness from the central government, navigate and transform the field of classical poetry, a "high" genre of the scholar-officials class? What did it mean for them to "make a living" out of poetry? Zhang Hongsheng answers those questions in this comprehensive study of the Rivers and Lakes Poetry Movement (Jianghu shipai).