Nine Families Read Du's Poems
by Editor-in-chief Tian Xiaofei
About This Novel
This book is named "Nine Schools of Reading Du Fu's Poems" after the Song Dynasty scholar Guo Zhida's "Nine Schools of Annotations on Du's Poems". It is edited by Tian Xiaofei and includes articles by nine scholars including Yuwen Suo'an, Alan Nuo, Ni Jian, Wang Dewei, Luo Jiwei, Chen Wei, Pan Gerui and Lu Bende, who carefully read Du Fu's poems from nine perspectives. It presents the subtle tensions between place and empire, politics and individuals, religion and literature in Du Fu's poems, and extends the reading of the text to topics such as poetry and visual art, tradition and modernity, touching on the contemporary acceptance and reconstruction of Du Fu. Although the nine authors have different perspectives, they are committed to discovering the true image of Du Fu who is "buried" under the stereotype of "Confucian poet". The book focuses particularly on Du Fu's works in Kuizhou before and after the Anshi Rebellion. While staying away from his former residence in Chang'an, Du Fu also distanced himself from elite literary institutions, which instead made him a pioneer, introducing a new form to Chinese poetic discourse: his detailed attention to daily reality and family life reflected another complex image of a poet that was completely different from the "poetic saint" and "poetry history".
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