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Wen xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume III

Author : Xiao Tong
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400864437
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Wen xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume III written by Xiao Tong and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wen xuan, compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531) is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese literature arranged by genre. It contains a total of 761 pieces of prose and verse by 130 writers from the late Zhou dynasty to the Liang dynasty (ca. 4th century B.C. to 6th century A.D.) The selection includes most of the best examples of fu (rhapsodies) and shi (lyric poems) from the Han, Wei, Jin, and North-South Dynasties periods, as well as representative examples of other early genres such as letters, memorials, prefaces, imperial edicts, inscriptions, epitaphs, laments, elegies, and eulogies. This anthology was one of the primary sources of literary knowledge for educated Chinese in the premodern period, and it is still an essential work for specialists in classical Chinese literature. This volume completes the translation of the rhapsodies (chapters 13 through 19) and includes many important masterpieces of early Chinese literature such as the "Rhapsody on Literature" by Lu Ji, "Rhapsody on Contemplating the Mystery" by Zhang Heng, "Rhapsody on Dance" by Fu Yi, and "Rhapsody on the Zither" by Xi Kang. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Wen Xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume I

Author : David R. Knechtges
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400857244
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Wen Xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume I written by David R. Knechtges and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A text of central importance to the Chinese literary tradition, the Wen xuan was compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531) and is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese literature arranged by genre. This volume, the first of a planned eight-volume translation of the entire work, contains thoroughly annotated translations of the first section of the Wen xuan, the rhapsodies on the metropolises and capitals." Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Fire over Luoyang

Author : Rafe de Crespigny
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004325204
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Fire over Luoyang written by Rafe de Crespigny and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award The Later Han dynasty, also known as Eastern Han, ruled China for the first two centuries of the Christian era. Comparable in extent and power to the early Roman empire, it dominated east Asia from present-day Vietnam to the Mongolian steppe. Rafe de Crespigny presents here the first full account of this period in Chinese history to be found in a Western language. Commencing with a detailed account of the imperial capital, the history describes the nature of government, the expansion of the Chinese people to the south, the conflicts of scholars and officials with eunuchs at court, and the final collapse which followed the rebellion of the Yellow Turbans and the rise of regional warlords.

Historical Dictionary of Medieval China

Author : Victor Cunrui Xiong
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442276169
Total Pages : 1007 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Medieval China by : Victor Cunrui Xiong

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Medieval China written by Victor Cunrui Xiong and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 1007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crucial period of Chinese history, 168-979, falls naturally into contrasting phases. The first phase, also known as that of 'early medieval China,' is an age of political decentralization. Following the breakup of the Han empire, China was plunged into civil war and fragmentation and stayed divided for nearly four centuries. The second phase started in 589, during the Sui dynasty, when China was once again brought under a single government. Under the Sui, the bureaucracy was revitalized, the military strengthened, and the taxation system reformed. The fall of the Sui in 618 gave way to the even stronger Tang dynasty, which represents an apogee of traditional Chinese civilization. Inheriting all the great institutions developed under the Sui, the Tang made great achievements in poetry, painting, music, and architecture. The An Lushan rebellion, which also took place during Tang rule, brought about far-reaching changes in the socioeconomic, political, and military arenas. What transpired in the second half of the Tang and the ensuing Five Dynasties provided the foundation for the next age of late imperial China. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Medieval China contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on historical figure. It expands on existing thematic entries, and adds a number of new ones with substantial content, including those on nobility, art, architecture, archaeology, economy, agriculture, money, population, cities, literature, historiography, military, religion, Persia, India, Japan, Korea, Arabs, and Byzantium, among others. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about medieval China.

Interpretation and Literature in Early Medieval China

Author : Alan K. L. Chan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438432194
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Interpretation and Literature in Early Medieval China written by Alan K. L. Chan and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a time of great intellectual ferment and great influence on what was to come, this book explores the literary and hermeneutic world of early medieval China. In addition to profound political changes, the fall of the Han dynasty allowed new currents in aesthetics, literature, interpretation, ethics, and religion to emerge during the Wei-Jin Nanbeichao period. The contributors to this volume present developments in literature and interpretation during this era from a variety of methodological perspectives, frequently highlighting issues hitherto unremarked in Western or even Chinese and Japanese scholarship. These include the rise of new literary and artistic values as the Han declined, changing patterns of patronage that helped reshape literary tastes and genres, and new developments in literary criticism. The religious changes of the period are revealed in the literary self-presentation of spiritual seekers, the influence of Daoism on motifs in poetry, and Buddhist influences on both poetry and historiography. Traditional Chinese literary figures, such as the fox and the ghost, receive fresh analysis about their particular representation during this period.

The Residue of Dreams

Author : Tsung-I Jao
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942242824
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Residue of Dreams written by Tsung-I Jao and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How to Read Chinese Poetry

Author : Zong-qi Cai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231139403
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book How to Read Chinese Poetry written by Zong-qi Cai and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci, and qu poems. A comprehensive introduction and extensive thematic table of contents highlight the thematic, formal, and prosodic features of Chinese poetry, and each chapter is written by a scholar who specializes in a particular period or genre. Poems are presented in Chinese and English and are accompanied by a tone-marked romanized version, an explanation of Chinese linguistic and poetic conventions, and recommended reading strategies. Sound recordings of the poems are available online free of charge. These unique features facilitate an intense engagement with Chinese poetical texts and help the reader derive aesthetic pleasure and insight from these works as one could from the original. Contributors: Robert Ashmore (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Zong-qi Cai; Charles Egan (San Francisco State); Ronald Egan (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara); Grace Fong (McGill); David R. Knechtges (Univ. of Washington); Xinda Lian (Denison); Shuen-fu Lin (Univ. of Michigan); William H. Nienhauser Jr. (Univ. of Wisconsin); Maija Bell Samei; Jui-lung Su (National Univ. of Singapore); Wendy Swartz (Columbia); Xiaofei Tian (Harvard); Paula Varsano (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Fusheng Wu (Univ. of Utah)

Ancestors and Anxiety

Author : Stephen R. Bokenkamp
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520249488
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Ancestors and Anxiety written by Stephen R. Bokenkamp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work on Chinese concepts of the afterlife. It explores how Chinese authors, including Daoists and non-Buddhists, received and deployed ideas about rebirth from the third to the sixth centuries CE. In tracing the antecedents of these scriptures, it presents non-Buddhist accounts that provide detail on the realms of the dead.

Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture in Early Medieval China

Author : Timothy M. Davis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004306420
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture in Early Medieval China written by Timothy M. Davis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture Timothy M. Davis presents a history of early muzhiming—the most versatile and persistent commemorative form employed in the elite burials of pre-modern China. While previous scholars have largely overlooked the contemporary religious, social, and cultural functions of these epigraphic objects, this study directly addresses these areas of concern, answering such basic questions as: Why were muzhiming buried in tombs? What distinguishes commemorative biography from dynastic history biography? And why did muzhiming develop into an essential commemorative genre esteemed by the upper classes? Furthermore, this study reveals how aspiring families used muzhiming to satisfy their obligations to deceased ancestors, establish a multi-generational sense of corporate identity, and strengthen their claims to elite status.

The Age of Courtly Writing

Author : Ping WANG
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900422825X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Courtly Writing written by Ping WANG and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-05-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship on Xiao Tong in both China and the West has paid little attention to his own writings beyond the influential anthology compiled by the Liang Crown Prince. Adopting a philological approach, this book thorougly examines a multitude of texts written by Xiao Tong and his entourage, many of whom were powerful writers in their own right. In addition to drawing a picture of important aspects of Liang court culture such as education, literary composition, personal relations, and ideological and religious trends, this study also redresses a long-standing bias against court poetry. It will enhance our understanding not only of the early sixth-century but also, indirectly, of a significant portion of pre-modern Chinese literature in general.

The Talent of Shu

Author : J. Michael Farmer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791479749
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Talent of Shu written by J. Michael Farmer and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-06-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Talent of Shu reconstructs the intellectual world of early medieval Sichuan through a critical biography of Qiao Zhou, a noted classicist, historian, and official of Shu-Han. Countering conceptions of Sichuan as an intellectual backwater, author J. Michael Farmer provides an analytical narrative history of the significant intellectual and scholarly activity in the region during the late second through third centuries CE. Qiao Zhou stands as an apt figure to represent the intellectual world of third-century Sichuan. An heir to a long-standing regional intellectual tradition, he was trained in political prophesy, canonical studies, and ancient history, and in true Confucian fashion, employed these skills in the service of the state. While some of Qiao's scholarship, as well as his political engagement, was conservative, he also stands as an innovator in the fields of canonical and historical criticism and local history. As such, he embodies not only the scholarly tradition of Sichuan, but also the intellectual transitions of the age.

Memory in Medieval China: Text, Ritual, and Community

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004368639
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Memory in Medieval China: Text, Ritual, and Community written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory is not an inert container but a dynamic process. It can be structured by ritual, constrained by textual genre, and shaped by communities’ expectations and reception. Urging a particular view of the past on readers is a complex rhetorical act. The collective reception of portrayals of the past often carries weighty implications for the present and future. The essays collected in this volume investigate various aspects of memory in medieval China (ca. 100-900 CE) as performed in various genres of writing, from poetry to anecdotes, from history to tomb epitaphs. They illuminate ways in which the memory of individual persons, events, dynasties, and literary styles was constructed and revised through processes of writing and reading. Contributors include: Sarah M. Allen, Robert Ashmore, Robert Ford Campany, Jack W. Chen, Alexei Ditter, Meow Hui Goh, Christopher M. B. Nugent, Xiaofei Tian, Wendy Swartz, Ping Wang.

Imitations of the Self: Jiang Yan and Chinese Poetics

Author : Nicholas Morrow Williams
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004282459
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Imitations of the Self: Jiang Yan and Chinese Poetics written by Nicholas Morrow Williams and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imitations of the Self reevaluates the poetry of Jiang Yan (444–505), long underappreciated because of its pervasive reliance on allusion, by emphasizing the self-conscious artistry of imitation. In context of “imitation poetry,” the popular genre of the Six Dynasties era, Jiang’s work can be seen as the culmination of central trends in Six Dynasties poetry. His own life experiences are encoded in his poetry through an array of literary impersonations, reframed in traditional literary forms that imbue them with renewed significance. A close reading of Jiang Yan’s poetry demonstrates the need to apply models of interpretation to Chinese poetry that do justice to the multiplicity of authorial self-representation.

Empresses and Consorts

Author : Shou Chen
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824819453
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Empresses and Consorts written by Shou Chen and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here rendered into English for the first time, these chapters provide important insights into the worlds of palace women and court politics, while revealing much about the lives of upper-class women in general at the close of the third century."--BOOK JACKET.

Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament

Author : Victor H. Mair
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350337226
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament written by Victor H. Mair and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions of ancient peoples, poems of mourning and texts of lament stand out in classical Chinese literature as brilliant and unique. Composed and celebrated over 3000 years, they are central to the Chinese literary tradition but have been largely unknown to English readers. Including over 100 major pieces by leading literary figures from 800 BCE 1800, this is the first English anthology of classic Chinese poems of mourning and texts of sacrificial offering. With annotated translations by leading scholars and reading guides accompanying each piece, this book reveals a powerful literary heritage to students and serious readers of Chinese literature, history and civilization.

Guiguzi ___: On the Cosmological Axes of Chinese Persuasion [Hardcover Dissertation Reprint]

Author : Daniel Coyle
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300799234
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Guiguzi ___: On the Cosmological Axes of Chinese Persuasion [Hardcover Dissertation Reprint] written by Daniel Coyle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of a philological and philosophical exploration of the Guiguzi 鬼谷子. It establishes the sinological background of the text through a detailed contextual study and locates Master Guigu in the Chinese intellectual tradition. Guiguzi is the legendary transmitter of the Sunzi bingfa ("Art of War") tradition, said to have bestowed his text upon Sun Bin. The research reveals that the Book of Master Guigu conceives a comprehensive "art of persuasion" by promoting an unassuaging efficacy within an early Daoist cosmological framework. [Hardcover reprint from a new scan of the 2000 edition]

A Library of Clouds

Author : J. E. E. Pettit
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082488292X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book A Library of Clouds written by J. E. E. Pettit and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From early times, Daoist writers claimed to receive scriptures via revelation from heavenly beings. In numerous cases, these writings were composed over the course of many nights and by different mediums. New revelations were often hastily appended, and the resulting unevenness gave rise to the impression that Daoist texts often appear slapdash and contain contradictions. A Library of Clouds focuses on the re-writing of Daoist scriptures in the Upper Clarity (Shangqing) lineage in fourth- and fifth-century China. Scholarship on Upper Clarity Daoism has been dominated by attempts to uncover “original” or “authentic” texts, which has resulted in the neglect of later scriptures—including the work fully translated and annotated here, the Scripture of the Immaculate Numen, one of the Three Wonders (sanqi) and among the most prized Daoist texts in medieval China. The scripture’s lack of a coherent structure and its different authorial voices have led many to see it not as a unified work but the creation of different editors who shaped and reshaped it over time. A Library of Clouds constructs new ways of understanding the complex authorship of texts like the Scripture of the Immaculate Numen and their place in early medieval Daoism. It stresses their significance in understanding the ways in which manuscripts were written, received, and distributed in early medieval China. By situating the scripture within its immediate hagiographic and ritual contexts, it suggests that this kind of revelatory literature is best understood as a pastiche of ideas, a process of weaving together previously circulating notions and beliefs into a new scriptural fabric.