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Article: HUANG T'ING-CHIEN'S "INCENSE OF AWARENESS": POEMS OF EXCHANGE, POEMS OF ENLIGHTENMENT.(Critical Essay)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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The writing of poems in association with objects that were exchanged as gifts became a common practice in eleventh-century China. Two sets of poems by Huang T'ing-chien written in 1086 in response to gifts of incense provide an index of his poetic techniques and an instructive contrast with the techniques of Su Shih. In the first set, Huang sees incense in terms of the process by which it is made or the ways in which it functions in the life of those who use it; there are both social and religious themes. Huang also explores in complex and subtle ways the multiple meanings of words, a central theme of his poetics. In the second set, Huang T'ing-chien enters into several ...
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