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Dwelling in the Vision of Utopia: A Politico-Religious Reading of Tao Qian

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dc.contributor.advisorDavid K Schneider
dc.contributor.authorLian, Jiani
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.departmentChinese
dc.date2024-03-28T19:35:13.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T18:16:43Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T18:16:43Z
dc.date.submittedMay
dc.date.submitted2015
dc.description.abstractThe present work offers a critical analysis of Tao Qian’s political and religious thought from readings of his poetic works. Focused on Tao Qian’s writings about the “Way” and the crisis of the “Way”, I examine how he constructs his political utopia and religious utopia that stand out as his response to the multidimensional existential crisis. Chapter 1 provides a summary of Tao’s depictions of the “Way” and the crisis of the “Way”, which serves as the textual ground of this study. Chapter 2 introduces the interdisciplinary methods that I have adopted to read and understand Tao Qian. Basically this study is informed by ideas and insights from modern disciplines of political thought and religious studies. Chapter 3 focuses on Tao Qian’s political utopia and discloses the philosophical traditions and personal innovations of Tao's political thought. Chapter 4 introduces Tao Qian’s religious utopia, with focus on how he manifests the sacred world and how he proposes to get to the sacred.
dc.description.degreeMaster of Arts (M.A.)
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/7084254
dc.identifier.orcidN/A
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/33226
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1260&context=masters_theses_2&unstamped=1
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectTao Qian
dc.subjectClassical Chinese Poetry
dc.subjectUtopia
dc.subjectPolitical Thought
dc.subjectReligious Studies
dc.subjectChinese Studies
dc.titleDwelling in the Vision of Utopia: A Politico-Religious Reading of Tao Qian
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