Zemian Zheng

Trauma, Transience, and Traversal: Philosophizing on Time Through Su Shi’s Huangzhou-Period Literary Works

Abstract Su Shi’s literary works duing exile in Huangzhou explore temporal experience. To heal the trauma inflicted by the Crow Terrace Poetry Trial, he must understand the temporality of trauma. Trauma is a dialectic of transience. A traumatic event must involve a sudden, unfore...