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Journal Article
A Floating Studio: The Boat Space in Song Literary Culture
2020
Overview
[...]by constructing the floating studio as an interface between the self and the world, Song literati created a tension between two opposing intellectual pursuits: the boat suggested personal freedom beyond society, whereas the studio evoked scholarliness and engagement with the world. A Private Aesthetic Space: The \"Studio Boat\" Practice An anecdote in Luo Dajing's 羅大經 (fl. 1224) Song miscellany (biji 筆記) Helin yulu 鶴林玉露 (Jade Dew in the Forest of Cranes) introduces a boat for carrying books: [...]as an opposing image, the \"antique inkstone\" (gu yanzhuan 古硯磚) is often employed in literature as a motif of an individual's strong enthusiasm for literary and artistic creation, antique collecting, and connoisseurship. [...]in this poem, by stating that he is spending his salary on the inkstone while giving up the mountain, Xu in effect prioritizes his pursuit of scholarliness over his desire to hide in the mountains. Since Liu's letter is written in parallel prose, it is worth noting that when he provides a counterpart for the inkstone taking priority over the mountain, Liu transforms \"the boat for carrying cranes\" (zaihe zhi chuan 載鶴之船) into a boat for carrying books.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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