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Publisher: China National Publications Import & Export C
Publisher Imprint: China National Publications Import & Export C
BISAC: Asia – China
Returning home! – Restoring a Tao Yuanming who is “different from the old accounts” and lives among humanity. –“” Before retiring from public life, Tao Yuanming had intermittently served as a minor official for many years. After retiring, he was merely a local notable and social worthy, and did not hold a particularly high position in the literary world; his poetic style did not conform to the mainstream and fashion of the time. But later his status rose higher and higher, transforming from the “patriarch of reclusive poets” into a loyal minister and remnant subject of the Eastern Jin, a model of traditional political morality. This book, in two volumes and twelve chapters, uses poetry and prose to supplement history, recounting the trajectory of Tao Yuanming’s repeated entry into and withdrawal from official life, analyzing the complexity of his thought and his life philosophy of entrusting himself to fate and letting things take their course, in order to restore “a figure different from the old accounts” – a Tao Yuanming who lived among humanity and is close to historical truth. Only by inviting Tao Yuanming down from the altar and standing up ourselves to look at this great poet as an equal can we clearly see his excellence and truly understand him – one who loved life and faced death as a return home. “” “”–
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