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Ten Thousand Scrolls Reading and Writing in the Poetics of Huang Tingjian and the Late Northern Song Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 76 This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 19 Oct 2019 14:58:25 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Ten Thousand Scrolls Reading and Writing in the Poetics of Huang Tingjian and the Late Northern Song Yugen Wang Published by the Harvard University Asia Center Distributed by Harvard University Press Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London 2011 This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 19 Oct 2019 14:58:25 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms © 2011 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College Printed in the United States of America The Harvard-Yenching Institute, founded in 1928 and headquartered at Harvard University, is a foundation dedicated to the advancement of higher education in the humanities and social sciences in East and Southeast Asia. The Institute supports advanced research at Harvard by faculty members of certain Asian universities and doctoral studies at Harvard and other universities by junior faculty at the same universities. It also supports East Asian studies at Harvard through contributions to the Harvard-Yenching Library and publication of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies and books on premodern East Asian history and literature. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wang, Yugen. Ten thousand scrolls : reading and writing in the poetics of Huang Tingjian and the late Northern Song / Yugen Wang. p. cm. -- (Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 76) Based on the author's doctoral dissertation--Harvard University. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-674-06255-9 (acid-free paper) 1. Huang, Tingjian, 1045-1105--Technique. 2. Huang, Tingjian, 1045-1105--Influence. 3. Chinese poetry--Authorship--History. 4. Chinese poetry--Technique--History. 5. Chinese poetry-- Appreciation--History. 6. Chinese poetry--Song dynasty, 960-1279--History and criticism. 7. Print- ing--China--History--Song dynasty, 960-1279. 8. China--Intellectual life--Song dynasty, 960-1279. 9. Books and reading--China--History--Song dynasty, 960-1279. 10. Authors and readers--China-- History--Song dynasty, 960-1279. I. Title. PL2681.Z5W36 2011 895.1'142--dc22 Index by the author Printed on acid-free paper Last figure below indicates year of this printing 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 19 Oct 2019 14:58:25 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms To the memory of my parents 王和育 余玉蓮 This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 19 Oct 2019 14:58:25 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Acknowledgments This book is based on my doctoral dissertation. I want to first of all thank Professor Stephen Owen, my advisor and mentor at Harvard, for his con- sistent support and guidance, his unwavering confidence in me, and the many comments and suggestions he has provided on my work throughout the years since the project was conceived. I also want to thank the other two members of my dissertation committee, Professors Peter K. Bol and Wilt L. Idema, both of whom were generous with their time and thoughts, whose careful and critical reading of my dissertation made it a much bet- ter one. Thanks also go to Professors Leo Lee and Michael Puett, whose courses, which I took in the early years of my doctoral training, greatly en- riched my experience at Harvard. Thanks go similarly to Tian Xiaofei, who not only kindly shared her many insights on classical Chinese poetry with me, and whose study on Tao Yuanming and manuscript culture in- spired my inquiry of Huang Tingjian and print culture in many ways. I would also like to thank my former teachers, mentors, and colleagues in the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture at Peking Univer- sity, particularly Professor Yue Daiyun, my M.A. thesis advisor there. It was Professor Yue who first introduced me into a scholarly world whose boundaries went much beyond the horizons of my earlier training and helped me see its boundless wonders and beauty. Her high spirit and This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 19 Oct 2019 14:58:25 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms viii Acknowledgments optimism have always been a source of inspiration that keeps urging me on whenever I am frustrated and have doubts. I enjoyed the company and friendship of my fellow classmates during my Harvard years, among them: Sarah M. Allen, Jack W. Chen, Chen Wenyi, Wiebke Denecke, Hong Yue, Jin Li, Vincent Leung, Li Cho-ying, Liu Guanglin, Luo Liang, Christopher M. B. Nugent, Zeb Raft, Peter Shen, Jascha Smilack, Jing Tsu, Wangling Jinghua, Yang Haosheng, and He Wenkai from MIT. I also want to thank my colleagues and students in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Oregon. Maram Epstein has been extremely generous with her time and advice, reading the whole manuscript and providing helpful suggestions for revi- sion. Stephen Durrant and Tze-lan Sang were excellent department heads who not only showed great patience and understanding but were also at- tentive to my special needs as a junior faculty member. Thanks go espe- cially to Monica E. McLellan from the UO Comparative Literature pro- gram, who gave the manuscript an intensive scrutiny and provided useful comments from the invaluable perspective of a reader who shares my in- terest in classical Chinese poetry but keeps critical of many of my unspeci- fied assumptions or unsubstantiated claims. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the two anonymous readers for the Harvard Asia Center Publications Program, who read the manuscript with enthusiasm and care, and provided thoughtful criticism and helpful suggestions for revision, which greatly improved both the content and the style of my argument. I also want to thank William M. Hammell, director of the Publications Program, and his predecessor, John R. Ziemer, both of whom are a delight to work with; and Kristen Wanner, my editor, whose careful editing and critical reading of my manuscript considerably enhanced the quality of my prose. Part of Chapter 5 was presented at the Early Development of Print Culture in China workshop held at Harvard in 2005. I want to thank Hilde De Weerdt and Joe Dennis, the co-organizers of the workshop, for inviting me, as well as Professor Ronald Egan, who served as the discuss- ant of my paper and provided valuable feedback and comments. A Harvard-Yenching Doctoral Scholarship provided key support for the first three and a half years of my Ph.D. training at Harvard. A Har- vard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Society Term Time This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 19 Oct 2019 14:58:25 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Acknowledgments ix Award in 2002 contributed to the conception of the project. A Summer Research Award granted by the Office of Research and Faculty Develop- ment at the University of Oregon in 2007 provided support in the final stages of the project. To these institutions and organizations, I am thankful. Last but not least, I would like to thank my wife Li for her enduring support, understanding, and patience throughout this long journey, dur- ing which our son, Rui, was born. Without her support the publication of this book would have been much delayed, if not altogether impossible. The book is dedicated to the memory of my parents, who did not know how to read but supported my scholarly pursuit and life of reading and writing with all their love. W. Y. G. This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 19 Oct 2019 14:58:25 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Abbreviations BJ Shangu bieji 山谷別集 CLEAR Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews HJAS Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society JAS Journal of Asian Studies JSYS Journal of Song Yuan Studies QTS Quan Tang shi 全唐詩 SBCK Sibu congkan 四部叢刊 SBBY Sibu beiyao 四部備要 SJZ Huang Tingjian shiji zhu 黃庭堅詩集注 SKQS Siku quanshu 四庫全書 TP T’oung Pao TS T’ang Studies WJ Shangu waiji 山谷外集 YZ Yuzhang Huang xiansheng wenji 豫章黃先生文集 This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 19 Oct 2019 14:59:56 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Contents Abbreviations xii Introduction 1 1 Striving for Perfection 35 2 Handle of the Hatchet 65 3 Leopard in the Fog 98 4 The Reading of Books 131 5 Ten Thousand Scrolls 162 Conclusion 195 Reference Matter Notes 205 Bibliography 245 Index 273 This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 19 Oct 2019 14:59:15 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms
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