@article {Chan:November 2008:0082-5433:209,
	author = "Chan, Timothy Wai Keung",
	title = "A Tale of Two Worlds: The Late Tang Poetic Presentation of The Romance of the Peach Blossom Font",
	journal = "T'oung Pao",
	volume = "94",
	year = "November 2008",
	abstract = "This article examines late Tang poetic representations of the early fifth-century tale of Liu Chen and Ruan Zhao's romance with divine maidens at a Shangri-La-like peach blossom font. <I>Shi</I> poems by such poets as Liu Yuxi (772-822) and Yuan Zhen (779-831), and a group of Huajian ("among the flowers") <I>ci</I> poems under the tune "N&#252;guanzi" ("The Daoist Priestess") by Wen Tingyun (ca. 812-866) and others, reveal the exploration of the old tale as a rich source of allegorical tropes. In particular, the late Tang poets consistently revitalize the Liu-Ruan tale's bifurcation between the immortal and the mortal worlds, a division between "two worlds" that enabled them to express a range of different meanings at different levels, for example in politics or when talking of love affairs.",
	pages = "209-245(37)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/top/2008/00000094/F0020004/art00001"
	doi = "doi:10.1163/008254308X385879"
}