Metonymy in Li Bai’s Poetry

The monograph represents a Cultural Cognitive Linguistic endeavor into the field of Chinese literary research, exploring how an analysis informed by Cognitive Linguistics can effectively tease out culturally significant patterns in the works of Li Bai, one of the most eminent poets in Mid-Imperial China. The work offers deep insight into the conceptual patterns that underlie Li Bai's poetic verses that not only reflect, but further shape the Chinese cultural thinking for generations. -- Wei-lun Lu, Department of Chinese Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
This is an impressive piece of scholarship—a rigorous, corpus-based cognitive poetic analysis that illuminates how metonymy shapes Li Bai's imagery, style, and cultural resonance. It makes a compelling case for metonymy's centrality in classical Chinese poetry and offers valuable insights for linguists, literary scholars, and translators alike. -- Prof. Heng LI
This book provides a pioneering cognitive-poetic analysis of metonymy in Li Bai’s poetry. Combining rigorous scholarship with rich textual insight, it offers an important contribution to both cognitive linguistics and the study of classical Chinese literature. -- Han Luo, Associate Professor of Chinese, Lafayette College, USA
This book offers an elegant and refined synthesis of modern cognitive linguistics and ancient Chinese poetry. It reveals the metonymic patterns underlying Li Bai’s classical poems, demonstrating how metonymy functions as a powerful vehicle for emotional and cultural expression while providing a corpus-based framework for understanding poetic compression. -- Ning Yu, Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University, USA