published_or_final_version / Chinese Language and Literature / Master / Master of Arts

Bunkyo Hifuron consists of six chapters, namely 'Heaven', 'Earth', 'East', 'West', 'South', and 'North'. The core part of 'East' is twenty-nine kinds of Dui (couplets), in which Kukai quoted and edited different theories on Dui by early Chinese scholars so that the reader could understand how to use each kind of Dui. Since Dui is a common rhetorical form in Chinese literature, Kukai's instructive information is of great use to scholars. Apart from textual criticism, rhetorical research has been conducted on the materials. However, no comprehensive research has ever been done on the linguistic concepts that underlie twenty-nine kinds of Dui in Bunkyo Hifuron. Therefore, this study will be the first attempt of its kind to address these problems. / Bunkyo Hifuron, is the work by a Japanese Buddhist monk, Kukai (774-835), who studied Buddhism in China. It is an important writing both in the history of Japanese literature and in the study of Chinese literature. In this work, Kukai edited the materials he obtained during his study in China. Some of the original texts quoted in Bunkyo Hifuron are already lost in China, which makes this work even more valuable for textual criticism. It has thus attracted many scholars' attention in their attempts to investigate the poetics and the prosodic techniques in Tang [Special character omitted] and pre-Tang texts. / This thesis is divided into five chapters: the first chapter is the preface, in which the purpose and methodology of this research are explained; in the second chapter, a general account is given of the structure of each kind of Dui; the third chapter analyzes the linguistic concepts underlying the twenty-nine kinds of Dui; the fourth chapter attempts to account for the systematic structure in the twenty-nine kinds of Dui; and the last part is the conclusion. / 文映霞. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: 2022. / Thesis (doctoral)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-379). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Wen Yingxia.