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      The Poetics of Sovereignty: On Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty

      Jack W. Chen

      Emperor Taizong (r 626-49) of the Tang is remembered as an exemplary ruler. This title focuses on Taizong’s literary writings that speak directly to the relationship between cultural form and…

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      Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu

      Jack W. Chen

      In his reading of the Shishuo xinyu, the most important anecdotal collection of medieval China, Jack W. Chen presents an extended meditation on the anecdote form, both what it affords…

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      Idle Talk

      Beginning with the Han dynasty and ending with the Qing, this book provides a cultural history of gossip and anecdote in traditional China.

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      Literary History in and beyond China: Reading Text and World

      The essays in Literary History in and beyond China examine the anthological histories that shape the concept of a particular genre, the interpretive positions that impel our aesthetic judgments, the…

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      Literary Information in China: A History

      Information has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world or the digital age. Leading experts turn…

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