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The Poetics of Sovereignty Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 71 This content downloaded from 140.180.254.72 on Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:11:20 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 140.180.254.72 on Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:11:20 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms T P S HE OETICS OF OVEREIGNTY On Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty Jack W. Chen Published by the Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute Distributed by Harvard University Press Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London 2010 This content downloaded from 140.180.254.72 on Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:11:20 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms © 2010 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 Chen, Jack Wei. The poetics of sovereignty : on Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty / Jack W. Chen. p. cm. -- (Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 71) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-674-05608-4 1. Tang Taizong, Emperor of China, 597-649--Criticism and interpretation. 2. Chinese poetry-- Tang dynasty, 618-907.--History and criticism. 3. Sovereignty in literature. I. Title. PL2677.T39Z55 2010 895.1'13--dc22 2010029504 Index by the author Printed on acid-free paper Last number below indicates year of this printing 19 18 17(cid:3)16(cid:3)15(cid:3)14(cid:3)13(cid:3)12(cid:3)11(cid:3)10 This content downloaded from 140.180.254.72 on Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:11:20 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms this book is dedicated to my family This content downloaded from 140.180.254.72 on Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:11:20 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 140.180.254.72 on Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:11:20 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Contents Acknowledgments xi Conventions xiv Dynasties and Periods xvi Introduction 1 1 Reading the Reign of Tang Taizong (r. 626–649) 13 Li Shimin’s Early Years / 14 The Taiyuan Uprising and the Founding of the Tang / 16 The Xuanwu Gate Incident / 21 Problems of Historiography during Taizong’s Reign / 26 The “Good Government of the Zhenguan Reign” / 32 Taizong’s Victory over the Turks / 38 The End of Taizong’s Reign / 42 2 On Sovereignty and Representation 48 The True King and the Tyrant / 51 The Problem of Foundational Violence / 55 The Zhou Ideal and the Anxiety of Empire / 59 Qin Shihuang: Empire and Body / 63 Denying the Imperial Body / 72 “The Golden Mirror” / 81 “Model for the Emperor” / 91 This content downloaded from 140.180.254.72 on Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:11:26 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms viii Contents 3 The Reception of Literature in Tang Taizong’s Court 106 Defining Poetry in Early China / 107 The Mao “Great Preface” / 110 Cao Pi’s “Discourse on Literature” / 115 Pei Ziye’s Critique of Poetry / 118 Li E’s Petition on Rectifying Literature / 124 Taizong’s Academy of Literature / 131 The Sui shu Preface to the “Biographies of Literary Men” / 134 Two Anecdotes about Taizong and Literature / 144 The Jin shu and Its Literary Preface / 148 Taizong’s Essay on Lu Ji / 153 4 The Writing of Imperial Poetry in Medieval China 161 Han Gaozu (r. 206–195 bc) / 162 Han Wudi (r. 141–87 bc) / 165 Cao Pi or Wei Wendi (r. 220–26) / 170 Three Poet-Emperors of the South / 174 Zhou Mingdi (r. 557–60) / 179 Sui Yangdi (r. 604–17) / 182 Tang Taizong and the Northern Style / 190 A Hunting Poem / 198 Two Visits to Qingshan Palace / 201 5 The Significance of Court Poetry 210 Yongwu Poetry, or “Poems on Things” / 214 A Poetic Genealogy of Snow / 218 Taizong and Yongwu Poetry / 228 Taizong on Snow / 233 The Hanlin xueshi ji / 237 “Traveling Past the Battlefield Where I Crushed Xue Ju” / 241 Matching Poems by Zhangsun Wuji, Yang Shidao, Chu Suiliang, and Xu Jingzong / 247 Shangguan Yi’s Matching Poem / 258 6 Palatial Form and the Rhapsodic Imagination 267 Sima Xiangru and the Poetry of Imperial Representation / 268 An Anecdote about Taizong and Rhapsodies / 273 The Early Discourse on Palaces / 275 Palaces and Tyranny / 280 Qin Shihuang and Palatial Ideology / 284 The Question of the Palace during the Han / 287 This content downloaded from 140.180.254.72 on Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:11:26 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Contents ix Taizong and Palatial Ideology / 292 The Rhapsody on Daming Palace / 296 7 On “The Imperial Capital Poems”: Ritual Sovereignty and 311 Imperial Askēsis Ritual and Territorialization / 313 Sui Yangdi’s Pleasure Excursions / 318 The Feng and Shan Sacrifices during Taizong’s Reign / 328 The Final Refusal of the Feng and Shan / 343 “The Imperial Capital Poems” / 352 Conclusion 377 Reference Matter Bibliography 387 Index 425 This content downloaded from 140.180.254.72 on Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:11:26 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 140.180.254.72 on Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:11:26 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
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