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A Study on the Characteristics of Writing for the Social Networking at JiangNan City — Focusing on Yuanmei’s Literature

  • The Journal of Chinese Cultural Studies
  • 2019, (44), pp.151-189
  • DOI : 10.18212/cccs.2019..44.007
  • Publisher : The Society For Chinese Cultural Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature > Chinese Literature > Chinese Culture
  • Received : April 25, 2019
  • Accepted : May 14, 2019
  • Published : May 30, 2019

Hong, Hye-Jin 1

1단국대학교

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ABSTRACT

Yuanmei was a poet who worked in the social space of Jiangnan city, for example a garden, a courtesanhouse, an academy書院, a poetry club and his Suiyuan. The people who took part in the social space formed horizontal exchanged ideas through discussion, criticism, and conversation. They pursued pursuing culture, knowledge, literary culture, and self-development. He paid attention to the contemporaries and explored the demands of the times. He realized that the value of the personal living in the current should be established. So he emphasized the writing with the reflection of personal temperament, induced the expression of one's inner desires and feelings, and expanded the subject which was closely connected with ordinary life. He also provided practical knowledge such as versification and encyclopedic knowledge and interesting stories for the demand for knowledge, culture and entertainment. Further, in order to expand the network of social spaces, he actively used three combining forms, first 「Suiyuanyajitu」 and poet, second biography’anecdote, poet and criticism, third exhibit of lanterns and poet. As a result Yuanmei created the symbol of Suiyuan, he was able to be the leader. Participants in the social space belonged to a literary community in which Yuanmei was central, and wrote a poem that reflected the poetic theory that he claimed. Using flexible thinking and subjective judgment, they could use it as an opportunity to discover and grow themselves.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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