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

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摘要： 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: 边塞诗, 西域, 帝国, 萧纲

Abstract: 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.

Key words: frontier poetry, Western Regions, empire, Xiao Gang

William A.Julian. Frontier as Peril and Promise: The Paradox of Xiao Gang's Western Regions[J]. 中国比较文学, 2025, 0(1): 56-78.

William A. Julian. Frontier as Peril and Promise: The Paradox of Xiao Gang's Western Regions[J]. Comparative Literature in China, 2025, 0(1): 56-78.

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