(Re-)Remembering A Silla Scholar’s Uncanny Experience in Tang China
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https://doi.org/10.25365/jeacs.2023.4.zhuKeywords:
Ch’oe Ch’iwŏn, “Ch’oe Ch’iwŏn”, “The Red Bags of the Fairy Maidens”, memory, Jiangnan, Silla, Tang dynastyAbstract
This paper examines a Chinese-language tale about the Silla scholar Ch’oe Ch’iwŏn (857–?), who spent about sixteen years in China, studying for — and then passing — the imperial civil service examinations and working as a Tang government official, before returning to Silla. In this uncanny story about Ch’oe’s alleged encounter with two beautiful female ghosts in Lishui and his epiphany from the experience, the obscure, sensualised, and aestheticised imagery of the Tang southland undergoes a contested process of transcultural remapping and various cross-spatial, cross-temporal, and cross-ideological re-envisionings. Through a contextualised close reading of the story, my paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the dynamics, fluidity, and paradoxes of cultural memories, which, in the case of the tale about Ch’oe, continue to evolve even in our own time.
本篇論文以新羅赴唐學者崔致遠（857–？）在溧水與“仙女”相遇的漢文傳奇故事為考察對象。崔致遠在唐生活約十六年，期間學習、應考、供職，之後回到新羅。故事中，在於情慾層面及審美層面上皆具迷濛並迷人氣質的江南之地，崔致遠偶遇一雙早已去世的美麗姊妹，並由此獲得頓悟。文本中唐代的南方之地經歷不同面向上的重新想像和構建，穿越時空與意識形態的諸多界線。通過置於歷史背景之中的文本細讀，本文旨在加深對於文化記憶所具有的豐富性、流動性及矛盾性的理解。在崔致遠故事的案例中，這些特性直至今日仍在繼續發展之中。
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