Southern Identity and Southern Estrangement in Medieval Chinese Poetry

From ancient times, China's remote and exotic Southa shifting and expanding region beyond the Yangtze Riverhas been an enduring theme in Chinese literature. For poets and scholar-officials in medieval China, the South was a barbaric frontier region of alienation and disease. But it was also a place of richness and fascination, and for some a site of cultural triumph over exile. The eight essays in this collection explore how tensions between pride in southern culture and anxiety over the alien q