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DESCRIPTION:Sex\, Ritual\, and Virtue in the?Book?of?Odes\n\nThe?Book?of?Od
 es?(Shijing?ÔŠ½›) is the earliest surviving anthology?of?Chinese poetry\, wh
 ose contents mostly date to the Zhou dynasty (1045¨C221 BCE)\, but it conta
 ins many works?of?interest to modern readers. In particular\, many?of?the 
 poems in the anthology are love songs\, composed in both male and female v
 oices\, evoking visceral emotions such as jealousy\, loneliness\, anger\, 
 and longing. In premodern China the anthology was normally read in tandem 
 with several traditional commentaries\, which interpreted the poems?of?lov
 e and longing in terms?of?Confucian concepts?of?ritual and propriety. Mode
 rn scholars\, however\, have frequently criticized this tradition?and asse
 rted that these poems are simply innocent love songs without any moral imp
 ort. Though this dispute may seem to be?one?of?literary interpretation?(he
 rmeneutics)\, it is also grounded in moral and political assumptions that 
 deserve scrutiny. After all\, the Confucian commentators were not wrong to
  think that love and desire are matters?of?profound sociopolitical signifi
 cance. Rather than choosing between straightforward love songs or moralizi
 ng allegory\, the poems are engaged in both domains at?once\; they revolve
  around dynamic oppositions?of?sexual desire and sexual constraint\, ritua
 l propriety and ritual violation\, innocence admired and innocence abused.
  Early commentaries\, though erring?on?some details\, remain a valuable gu
 ide to the way that these poems engage with multiple dimensions?of?ancient
  Chinese culture.\n
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LOCATION:Gold Room (second floor)\, Faculty Club\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A
  0E5\, 3450 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:Paul Hsiang Lecture Series on Chinese Poetry
URL:/eas/channels/event/paul-hsiang-lecture-series-chi
 nese-poetry-359533
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