- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Having It Both Ways: Manors and Manners in Bai Juyi’s Poetry
- The Estate and the State
- How to Possess a Garden
- The Middling Hermit
- 2. The Poetics of Space: Presence and Mediation
- A Gated Space
- Naturalizing the Garden
- Nature Framed, Nature Reflected
- Southern Landscapes in Northern Gardens
- 3. Fetishism and Its Anxiety: A Poetic Biography of Fantastic Rocks
- Obsession and Fetishism in the Chinese Tradition
- The Rock Topos in Pre-Tang Poetry
- The Ugly, the Grotesque, and the Useless
- Niu Sengru’s Petromania
- From Apologia to Satire
- The Philosophical Critique in the Northern Song
- Redefining the Ugly, the Grotesque, and the Useless
- Reconciling Theory and Practice
- Coda
- 4. Words and Things: The Exchange of Poetry and Poetry of Exchange
- A Tale of Two Cranes
- A Beloved Concubine in Exchange for a Horse
- Spontaneous Artistry and Calculated Exchanges
- Three Poems, Two Rocks, One Painting
- 5. Old Men at Home: The Rhetorics of Joy and Leisure
- The Transcendence of Sorrow and the Theme of Joy
- Glorifying the Community of Joyful Elders
- (Dis)Content with Leisure
- Back to Gardens
- Postscript: Reflections on the Private Sphere
- Reference Matter
- Works Cited
- Index of Titles
- Subject Index
HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS


Harvard East Asian Monographs 225
Metamorphosis of the Private Sphere
Gardens and Objects in Tang–Song Poetry
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Publication Date: 10/15/2003