Yang Shen
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Yang Shen (simplified Chinese: 杨慎; traditional Chinese: 楊慎; pinyin: Yáng Shèn; 1488–1559) was a poet in the Chinese Ming dynasty. His courtesy name was Yongxiu (
Yang Shen was the son of Yang Tinghe and originally lived in Chengdu, Sichuan province. He there married Huang E, who was known for her own scholarship and became a poet.[1]
As a result of the Great Rites Controversy of 1524, he was reduced to the status of commoner and exiled to Yunnan, where he spent over 30 years.[2][3] His wife went to his family's house in Chengdu and took care of financial matters, the household and the raising of Yang family children, and only occasionally had time to visit him.
Yang Shen was well received by the Yunnanese literati and produced a substantial amount of writing inspired by the nature and culture of that province. Particularly well known are the Linjiangxian or The Immortals by the River (臨江
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- ^ a b Chang, Kang-i Sun; Saussy, Haun; Charles Yim-tze Kwong, eds. (2000). Chinese Women Poets: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism from Ancient Times to 1911. Stanford University Press. pp. 172–3. ISBN 978-0804732314.
- ^ Pidhainy, Ihor. The Temples of Yunnan: Literati Travel Writing during the Jiajing Reign (1522–1567) Apr 2006
- ^ a b Pidhainy, Ihor. A Ming Dynasty Literatus Goes A’Wandering: Yang Shen and the Art of Pure Travel Writing in 'Roaming atop Diancang Mountain'. Ihor Pidhainy. Apr 2006
- ^ Ward, Julian (2001), Xu Xiake (1587-1641): the Art of Travel Writing, Routledge, p. 15, ISBN 0-7007-1319-0
- ^ Pidhainy, Ihor. Yang Shen and the Nature of Travel Writing. Univ. of Toronto, 2006
6. Jonathan Chaves, The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry, Columbia University Press, 1986.