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Alcohol and Alcoholism (shi jiu) in the Song Alcohol and Alcoholism (shi jiu) in the Song
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Song Literati and Stopping Drinking (zhi jiu) Song Literati and Stopping Drinking (zhi jiu)
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Conclusion: Tao Qian’s “Stopping Drinking” (zhi jiu) and Social Awareness of Alcoholism Conclusion: Tao Qian’s “Stopping Drinking” (zhi jiu) and Social Awareness of Alcoholism
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Bibliography Bibliography
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8 Alcoholism and Song Literati
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Published:August 2017
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Abstract
Crystallized in the alterity of an ancient Chinese past, alcohol use and abuse have often in the field of sinology become synonymous with romanticized literati affect: Tao Qian’s 陶潛 (365-427)’s “Twenty Poems on Drinking” and Li Bai 李白’s (701-762) “Drinking Alone Under the Moon” come immediately to mind. This glorification has precipitated a blind spot regarding the self-destructive effects of alcoholism in Chinese cultural history. Through an analysis of Song encyclopedia, anecdotes, and medical texts, I uncover a Song discourse on alcoholism: shijiu 嗜酒. Reading poems of Mei Yaochen 梅堯臣 (1002-1060) and Yang Wanli 楊萬里 (1127-1206), the chapter reveals personal accounts of these literati’s struggles to stop drinking (zhijiu 止酒). To define alcoholism, I employ the diagnostic criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-5 (DSM-V), evincing the presence of five distinct diagnostic criteria of “Alcohol Use Disorder” amongst Song literati.
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