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Roaming into the Beyond : the Theme of Immortality in Early Medieval Chinese Verse

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2007

Abstract

The study focuses on the "youxian", "roaming into immortality", current of early medieval Chinese verse. Its rise and transformations are traced on the basis of central themes, imagery and poetic conventions.Its relations to other poetic currents and to religious beliefs and practices of the period are considered as well.