Zhang, Yanxiang
Congratulations on passing the colloquium on 30 March 2022.
Dissertation topic:
"The Making of a Place: Topographical Literature on West Lake by Tian Rucheng (b. 1501) and Zhang Dai (b. 1597)."
Contact address at the University of Würzburg:
University of Würzburg Institute of East and South Asian Cultural Studies Sinology
Am Hubland, Philosophy Building Building 8
97074 Würzburg
First supervisor: Prof. Dr Roland Altenburger
Second supervisor:
Associate Prof. Dr Silvia Freiin Ebner von Eschenbach
Class in the graduate school:"Philosophy, Languages, Arts"
Doctorate in the Graduate School from WS 2015/2016.
Abstract:
This dissertation aims to study the sightseeing of imperial Chinese literati at West Lake (Xihu 西湖) with an emphasis on the "mentality of sightseeing": the motivations, attitudes towards sightseeing, tastes and values etc.. While the study spans a period from mid Ming to early Qing, a series of texts written during this period on the sightseeing at West Lake will be investigated. Taking West Lake as a "case study", this dissertation will hopefully provide a glimpse of the sightseeing culture, which had played an important role in the social lives of Chinese literati of this period and the construction of their identity.
