Drifting with Clouds, Living by Poetry: The Rivers and Lakes Poets of the Southern Song

How did poets from the Rivers and Lakes, a realm defined by its remoteness from the central government, navigate and transform the field of classical poetry, a high genre of the scholar-officials class? What did it mean for them to make a living out of poetry? Zhang Hongsheng answers those questions in this comprehensive study of the Rivers and Lakes Poetry Movement (Jianghu shipai).