Frontier as Peril and Promise:The Paradox of Xiao Gang's Western Regions  

作　　者：William A.Julian 

机构地区：[1]the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University

出　　处：《中国比较文学》2025年第1期56-78,44,共24页Comparative Literature in China

摘　　要：This article attempts to unravel a paradox in the frontier poetry of Xiao Gang.Through a close reading of his two homonymous“Ballad of Joining the Military”poems,I highlight two radically divergent ways in which the Southern Liang Prince portrayed Emperor Wu of Han’s conquest of the Western Regions.I argue that these paradoxical significations of empire can be understood through the patterns found within the historiography of the Han period;his lived experience of the Southern Liang’s frontier;and his Buddhist views on the impermanence and essential unreality of worldly manifestations.本文旨在解开萧纲边塞诗中的一个悖论,通过对他两首同名“从军行”的细读,揭示他在描绘汉武帝征服西域过程中所呈现的两种截然不同的方式。本文认为这一悖论的内涵可以从汉代史书模式、萧纲在南梁边境的亲身经历,以及他对世界万象的无常性和本质空无的佛教观点出发加以理解。

关 键 词：frontier poetry Western Regions EMPIRE Xiao Gang 

分 类 号：I207.22[文学—中国文学]