Title

Observations on the Relationship Between the Earlier Rhapsodies and the Thoughts in the Warring States Period

Author

Sherman Chu

Genre

Article  

Pages

1-33

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Language

Chinese

Key words

the earlier rhapsodies, the thoughts in the Warring States Period, jesters, popularize

Abstract

      This paper can be divided into two parts.

      In the first part consisting of four chapters, I will explore those topics as revealed in the earlier rhapsodies, which were exactly the concerns of the intelligentsia in the Warring States Period. In other words, the earlier rhapsodies should be viewed as the philosophical argumentations amouflaged in the popular literary expression.

      In the second part, I will bring forth suggestion that the literary adaptation of those philosophical argumentations had something to do with earlier rhapsodists’ status in court, their intellectual cultivations, the princes’ vulgar tastes, and their antipathy to decent preaching.