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This is the first collection of essays in English, contributed by well-known experts of Chinese literature as well as scholars of a younger generation, dedicated to the poetry of Du…
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Xiaofei Tian
The Liang dynasty (502-557) was among the most brilliant and creative periods in Chinese history and is among the most underestimated and misunderstood. This book contextualizes the literary culture of…
This book explores two important moments of dislocation in Chinese history, the early medieval period (317-589 CE) and the nineteenth century. Tian juxtaposes a rich array of materials from these…
The third century CE-the Jian'an era or Three Kingdoms-holds double significance for the Chinese cultural tradition. Its writings laid the foundation of classical poetry and literary criticism. Its historical personages…
Shows how readers not only experience authors but produce them by shaping texts to their interpretation. This book examines the mechanics and history of textual transmission in China by focusing…
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Looks at how changes made when medieval Chinese manuscripts were copied influenced a writer’s literary reputation
Zhang Daye
In 1861, when China’s devastating Taiping rebellion began, the author was seven years old. The Taiping rebel army occupied Shaoxing, his hometown, and for the next two years, he hid…
This is a new, accurate translation into English, with critical introduction and notes and based on recent scholarship, of Yan Zhitui’s (531-590s) complete literary works, including his famous Family Instructions…
This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century BCE through a conceptual framework centered on textual production and transmission…
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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A survey of art from the lower Yangzi River delta that explores the region's influential role in defining Chinese art throughout history
Stephen Owen,Wendy Swartz
This volume provides a translation of the complete poetry and fu of Ruan Ji (210-263) in a new context that does not read his poetry as a loyalist of the…
Robert Ashmore
Li He (790-816) holds a place in China’s poetic history somewhat outside the mainstream, but in every generation of readers there have been those who have found his intense and…