Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2020
Summary
The generic term fu 賦, as well as the complementary term shi 詩, are used in roman font without italicization throughout this volume. In discussions of the word fu encompassing other meanings apart from the name of the literary genre, it is italicized as usual. Poetic compositions whose genre is not otherwise specified can be assumed to belong to the fu genre.
Most of the papers in this volume were presented at the Fu Poetics conference held at the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology, Hong Kong Baptist University, on February 27–28, 2016. Neither the conference nor this volume would have been possible without the support of the Academy's director, Chen Zhi, an indefatigable impresario of sinological scholarship who has supported countless worthy ventures in Hong Kong.
In preparing the manuscript for publication, the copyeditor, Ms. Sherlon Ip, and the anonymous reader for the press have both provided numerous valuable corrections. The publication of this volume has been supported by a Hsu Long-sing Research Grant from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Hong Kong.
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- The Fu Genre of Imperial ChinaStudies in the Rhapsodic Imagination, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2019