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Book SynopsisTrade Review"It's a fascinating book that's a pleasure to read for both specialist and general readers."
-- Carla Nappi * New Books Network *
"Readers and writers of English and American literature can find some kind of enlightenment in On Cold Mountain’s presentation of the processes of poetic transmission and Buddhist poetics in its earlier contexts."
-- Lucas Klein * Tang Studies *
"Paul Rouzer’s new monograph is a welcome contribution to the field, a shaft of light illuminating the brillance of one jewel in a vast, neglected mine. . . . It is a pioneering work, an essential guide for anyone who would wish to make the journey across the strange landscape of Hanshan."
-- Thomas J. Mazanec * Journal of the American Oriental Society (JAOS) *
"In this first major study of Hanshan, Paul Rouzer adds new dimensions to our understanding of the poet and proposes inventive methodological directions in reading Hanshan from a Buddhist perspective and by formulating a study that is at once scholarly and popularly accessible."
-- Christopher Byrne * Journal of Chinese Religions *
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Introduction | Who Gets to Climb Cold Mountain?
Part One | The Poet
1. Who Was Hanshan?
2. Who Was Hanshan, Again?
Part Two | The Poems
3. Juxtapositions
4. At Home and Abroad
5. Tropes
6. Satire
Part Three | Reading Buddhists
7. Who Gets to Climb the Matterhorn?
Afterword
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
