Hosted by UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, the talk "Composing Courtesy: Understanding Envoy Poetry i n Early Modern East Asia" aims to understand the role of envoy poetry in th e history of early modern East Asia and develop a comparative framework for understanding the phenomenon of envoy poetry in cross-cultural perspective .
Speaker: Dr. Wiebke Denecke
Location: Zoom – The Zoom link will be sent to registrants
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Talk Summary:
This talk focuses on envoy poe try from early modern East Asia\, in particular on Collections of Magnif icent Flowers (Hwanghwajip)\, a large corpus of officially compi led poetry anthologies from the missions the Ming court sent to Chosŏn Kore a between 1450 and 1633\; and several 18th-century poetry collec tions from Korea’s t’ongsinsa missions to Japan. In cross-cultural p erspective East Asia’s envoy poetry is a highly distinctive phenomenon: dur ing their encounters envoys communicated in the scripta (rather than lingua) franca of Literary Sinitic through “brush talk” on p aper\; they were Confucian literati eager to display their talent in collec tive poetry composition on set topics and shared rhyme schemes\; and they l earnt how to play with a common set of themes and tropes to convey courtesy and conviviality. How do the literary repertoires differ in Ming-Chosŏn an d Chosŏn-Tokugawa envoy poetry collections and why? How did current events and evolving political constellations affect this rather formulaic poetry?
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