3 Crafting a Collection The Cultural Contexts and Poetic Practice of the Huajian ji (cid:10937)(cid:14727)(cid:14961)(cid:691)(cid:691) (Collection from Among the Flowers) Harvard East Asian Monographs 263 This content downloaded from 140.180.255.19 on Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:18:20 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 140.180.255.19 on Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:18:20 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 3 Crafting a Collection The Cultural Contexts and Poetic Practice of the Huajian ji (cid:10937)(cid:14727)(cid:14961)(cid:691)(cid:691) (Collection from Among the Flowers) Anna M. Shields Published by the Harvard University Asia Center Distributed by Harvard University Press Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London 2006 This content downloaded from 140.180.255.19 on Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:18:20 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms © 2006 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College Printed in the United States of America The Harvard University Asia Center publishes a monograph series and, in coordination with the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, the Korea Institute, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and other faculties and institutes, administers research projects designed to further scholarly understanding of China, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, and other Asian countries. The Center also sponsors projects addressing multidisciplinary and regional issues in Asia. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shields, Anna M., 1966– Crafting a collection : the cultural contexts and poetic practice of the Huajian ji : collec- tion from among the flowers / Anna M. Shields. p. cm. – (Harvard East Asian monographs ; 263) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-674-02142-8 (cl : alk. paper) 1. Ci (Chinese poetry)--History and criticism. 2. Chinese poetry--Tang dynasty, 618–907--History and criticism. 3. Chinese poetry--Five dynasties and the Ten kingdoms, 907–979--History and criticism. I. Title: Cultural contexts and poetic practice of the Huajian ji : collection from among the flowers. II. Hua jian ji. III. Title. IV. Series. pl2341.s56 2006 895.1'1308--dc22 2006000334 Index by Jake Kawatski Printed on acid-free paper Last figure below indicates year of this printing 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 This content downloaded from 140.180.255.19 on Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:18:20 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms To my parents Nicholas L. Shields, Jr., and Johanna Nicol Shields This content downloaded from 140.180.255.19 on Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:18:20 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 140.180.255.19 on Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:18:20 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 3 Acknowledgments The making of this book stretches back more than a decade, reaches across many states and a few continents, and owes much to other people. Throughout the research and writing, I have been fortunate enough to be sustained by advisors, fellow scholars, institutions, and good friends. At Harvard University, where I studied Chinese po- etry with Professor Stephen Owen, I found a tireless mentor who has helped me often in the years since I left Cambridge. My debt to him is huge, and I am happy to acknowledge it here. At Indiana University, where I completed my doctoral degree with Professor Stephen R. Bokenkamp, I found yet another extraordinary mentor. He used his own broad learning to widen my perspective on me- dieval China; his intellectual interests enriched mine, and his un- flagging support kept me on course through the years. I thank him for these things and much more. I have often said that I had the best dissertation committee one could possibly imagine, and it is true. The work that Professors Bokenkamp, Peter Lindenbaum, Lynn Struve, and Yingjin Zhang committed to the dissertation made its transformation to a book conceivable, and I thank them once again for their critical readings and encouragement. I would also like to thank Professor Robert Eno of Indiana University, whose scholarly rigor and patience were important models for me. This content downloaded from 140.180.255.19 on Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:18:20 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms viii Acknowledgments In the several years I spent teaching at different universities, I learned a great deal from colleagues who read chapters, listened to presentations, and gave me comments that influenced this work. While at the University of Maryland, I benefited from discussions with traditional China scholars; Jonathan Chaves, Philip Kafalas, Tobie Meyer-Fong, and Stuart Sargent were especially helpful. From my year spent as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, I wish to thank William Baxter, Shuen-fu Lin, Donald R. Lopez, Jr., David Rolston, and Robert Sharf for their advice and comments. At the University of Arizona, I have been lucky to have colleagues willing to exchange chapters and ideas; I would like to thank Todd Brown, Noel Pinnington, and my former colleague Roel Sterckx, now at Cambridge University, for their intellectual companionship and their responses to a version of Chapter 1. An earlier version of Chapter 3 appeared as “Gathering the ‘Flowers’ of Poetry and Song: Anthologies in Tang and Shu,” in T’ang Studies 15–16 (1997–1998), and I thank T’ang Studies for per- mission to republish the material in its present form. When the book manuscript was completed, two scholars paid me the great favor of reading all of it: I am grateful to Daniel Bryant and Paul W. Kroll for their careful work on my behalf. Many thanks also to Michael A. Fuller, who read both the dissertation and the later book chapters and gave me precise, helpful suggestions. Anthony DeBlasi, Franciscus Verellen, and Sophie Volpp also read and commented on individual chapters, and I appreciate their timely comments. I would also like to acknowledge the funding from the Provost’s Author Support Fund at the University of Arizona for assistance in completing the index for the book. Finally, I am very grateful to the two readers for the Harvard University Asia Center, who offered suggestions and corrections on a wide range of issues in the book and improved it enormously. The errors and infelicities that remain are of course mine. Closer to home, I am glad that my boys—Tommy, Michael, and Jack Hegarty—were able to put up with their mother’s late nights at the office and her occasional preoccupation with things other than themselves. And I thank my husband, Stephen Hegarty, a zhiyin (cid:8872)(cid:15178) in every sense. The evenings we have spent listening to songs This content downloaded from 140.180.255.19 on Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:18:20 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Acknowledgments ix and talking about what and how they mean shaped this book in many ways; his support and love made the whole thing possible. Finally, I dedicate this book to my parents, in gratitude: to my father, Nicholas L. Shields, Jr., who let me keep my nose in a book and taught me never to be afraid of hard work; and to my mother, Johanna Nicol Shields, who all her life has shown me the struggles and rewards of being a wife, mother, and scholar. I owe them more than I can say. A.M.S. This content downloaded from 140.180.255.19 on Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:18:20 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 140.180.255.19 on Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:18:20 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms