{"product_id":"9781641894739-fu-poetry-along-the-silk-roads","title":"Fu Poetry Along the Silk Roads","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThird-Century Chinese Writings on Exotica\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn exploration of the nature of cultural exchange of the exotic and Chinese influence in world culture through the study of \u003cem\u003eyongwufu\u003c\/em\u003e (rhapsodies on objects) and the connection between the early Silk Roads and Chinese poetic writing of the third century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the dissemination of ideas and information on the early silk roads between Europe and China, through the first detailed study of the Sinicization of foreign objects in Chinese poetic writing of the third century CE.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThird-century literary developments and the prevailing literary works from that era leave us with an impressive amount of information concerning exotic objects, such as plants, animals, and crafts, and record the cultural exchange between distant peoples whose goods, ideas, and technologies entered China.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese hitherto-forgotten rhapsodies express the profound interest and excitement of learned men for foreign objects. They bear witness to the cultural exchanges between China and other civilizations and provide a more nuanced insight of early medieval China as an integrated society rather than an isolated one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40638573903969,"sku":"9781641894739","price":147.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28367414.jpg?v=1722537008","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781641894739-fu-poetry-along-the-silk-roads","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}