On Cold Mountain - A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems

Paul Rouzer is professor of Asian languages and literatures at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese and Articulated Ladies: Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts.

List of contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction | Who Gets to Climb Cold Mountain?

Part One | The Poet

1. Who Was Hanshan?

2. Who Was Hanshan, Again?

Part Two | The Poems

3. Juxtapositions

4. At Home and Abroad

5. Tropes

6. Satire

Part Three | Reading Buddhists

7. Who Gets to Climb the Matterhorn?

Afterword

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Paul Rouzer is professor of Asian languages and literatures at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese and Articulated Ladies: Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Rouzer
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780295742687
• ISBN: 978-0-295-74268-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: On Cold Mountain
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures