| This dissertation, with a cross-subject study on the literature geography, tries to reveal the manifestation and the rules of transmutation of the Ancient Chinese Literature Geography, and the academic system of the studies on the Ancient Chinese Literature Geography.The dissertation consists of a brief introduction and five chapters. In the brief introduction, the author brought out a theory called "two restores", i.e. " landscape restore" and "territory restore". With this as a theoretical base for the study, the author then made a brief exposition to the three aspects, such as 'reasons and aims of the topic selection', 'review and assessment of the subject' and 'theory and methods of the study'. Because of the two currently conspicuous problems in the study of the Chinese Literature Geography, such as a lack of an overall study on the system and of structure of academic system, the dissertation, with an academic theory from a static to a dynamic, from a plane to a three-dimension and from a single-way to a pluralistic study, focuses on the five key links which determined and influenced the Ancient Chinese Literature Geography. Beginning with the distribution of native places of writers, it develops into the three levels from the river axes to city centers and to the directions of the flow of writers. At last it comes to a conclusion ofenquiry into a rotating models and rules of regions. Just like a dumbbell structure, the distribution of native places of writers is a basis of the whole literature geography which is a static, plane and single-way. However, the region rotating model is a dynamic, three-dimensional and pluralistic one. The most important three links between them each plays a function analogous to one by 'an artery', 'a heart' and 'a soul'.The author thinks that the four key river axes of the Yellow River, the Changjiang River, the Zhujiang River an the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal spread out, with one from north to south and three from west to east, as if there are four big arteries to be linked up in the landscape of the Chinese Literature, which, one after another, played a key role in moving together with the Chinese Literature Geography form the northwest to the southeast. With the four rivers lying in the important places in the Chinese geography, the ancient Chinese cities were distributed mainly over these four key river axes, which provided a geographic condition to the form of city centers. The changes of the city centers helped to move the river axes. They were both connected together and were inseparable. At the same time, with the founding and adjustment of administrative organizational system, the city centers gave an impetus to the improvement of the system of river axes and to the elaboration of the axis function, and then became 'the heart' in the landscape of Chineseliterature - the cities not only themselves became the most dynamic and important arena for the literature activities, but also became the central power to further motivate the evolution of literature landscape. The 'double-capital center' developed in the Western Zhou Dynasty, with a long history and a unique style, was the core of the system of city centers. Corresponding to the river axes and city centers, the groups of writers, as the main body of literature activities and writing, were on the move all the time. Within it there were 8 most important moving ways and 4 kinds of relationships, which are the moves in same direction between teaching and learning, the moves in an opposite direction between taking up an official post and living as a hermit, the moves in an opposite direction between promotion and demotion, and the moves in different directions between traveling and removing. With the moves there came four kinds of relationships between teaching and learning; living as an official and as a hermit; promotion and demotion; and between static and dynamic state. With these 8 moving ways and 4 static relationships, the old balances were broken in the continuously polarized and extended two-side mo... |
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