Early Medieval China a sourcebook / edited by Wendy Swartz, Robert Ford Campany, Yang Lu, and Jessey J.C. Choo. - New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Return to the north? : the debate on moving the capital back to Luoyang / The disputation at Pengcheng : accounts from the Wei Shu and the Song Shu / Between imitation and mockery : the southern treatments of northern cultures / Literary imagination of the north and south / Managing locality in early medieval China : evidence from Changsha / Classical scholarship in the Shu region : the case of Qiao Zhou / Ranking men and assessing talent : Xiahou Xuan's response to an inquiry by Sima Yi / On land and wealth : Liu Zishang's "petition on closing off mountains and lakes" and Yang Xi's "discussion on abolishing old regulations regarding mountains and marshes" / Crime and punishment : the case of Liu Hui in the Wei Shu / Marriage and social status : Shen Yue's "Impeaching Wang Yuan" / Religion and society on the Silk Road : the inscriptional evidence from Turfan / The art of discourse : Xi Kang's "Sound is without sadness or joy" / Poetry on the mysterious : the writings of Sun Chuo / The art of poetry writing : Liu Xiaochuo's "Becoming the number-one person for the number-one position" / Poems from a Liang dynasty princely court / Pei Ziye's "Discourse on insect carving" / Classifying the literary tradition : Zhi Yu's "discourse on literary compositions divided by genre" / Zhong Rong's preface to grades of the poets / Book collecting and cataloging in the age of manuscript culture : Xiao Yi's master of the golden tower and Ruan Xiaoxu's preface to seven records / Jessey J.C. Choo -- Albert E. Dien -- Jessey J.C. Choo -- Ping Wang -- Yang Lu -- J. Michael Farmer -- Timothy M. Davis -- Charles Holcombe -- Jen-der Lee -- David R. Knechtges -- Huaiyu Chen -- Robert Ashmore -- Paul W. Kroll -- Ping Wang -- Xiaofei Tian -- Jack W. Chen -- Wendy Swartz -- Stephen Owen -- Xiaofei Tian. Biographies of recluses : Huangfu Mi's accounts of high-minded men / Classifications of people and conduct : selections from Liu Shao's treatise on personality and Liu Yiqing's recent anecdotes from the talk of the ages / The literary community at the court of the Liang crown prince / Self-narration : Tao Yuanming's "Biography of the master of five willows" and Yuan Can's "Biography of the master of wonderful virtue" / On political and personal fate : three selections from Jiang Yan's prose and verse / The shadow image in the cave : discourse on icons / Dietary habits : Shu Xi's "Rhapsody on pasta" / The epitaph of a third-century wet nurse, Xu Yi / Festival and ritual calendar : selections from record of the year and seasons of Jing-Chu / Custom and society : the family instructions of Mr. Yan / Adoption and motherhood : "The petition submitted by Lady [nee] Yu" / Estate culture in early medieval China : the case of Shi Chong / Biographies of eight autocremators and Huijiao's "Critical evaluation" / Divine instructions for an official / Tales of strange events / Texts for stabilizing tombs / Reciting scriptures to move the spirits / Confucian views of the supernatural / Encounters in mountains / Alan Berkowitz -- Jack W. Chen -- Ping Wang -- Wendy Swartz -- Paul W. Kroll -- Eugene Wang -- David R. Knechtges -- Jen-der Lee -- Ian Chapman -- Albert E. Dien -- Jessey J.C. Choo -- David R. Knechtges -- James A. Benn -- Stephen R. Bokenkamp -- Robert Ford Campany -- Timothy M. Davis -- Clarke Hudson -- Keith N. Knapp -- Gil Raz.



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Chinese literature--History and criticism.--220-589


Electronic Books.

DS747 / .E275 2014