Biographical Dictionary Of Tang Dynasty Literati

Author : William H. Nienhauser, Jr.,Michael E. Naparstek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0253060265

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Biographical Dictionary of Tang Dynasty Literati by William H. Nienhauser, Jr.,Michael E. Naparstek Pdf

Many regard the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) as the most important era for classical Chinese poetry, with around fifty thousand poems from the period surviving to the modern era. The great poets--Li Bo, Wang Wei, Du Fu, Bo--all lived in the Tang Dynasty. Meticulously researched and featuring many examples of their writings, the Biographical Dictionary of Tang Dynasty Literati presents 139 biographies of classical Chinese poets. Compiled by award-winner author William H. Nienhauser, Jr., and Michael E. Naparstek, this book is the first comprehensive dictionary of writers during the Tang dynasty. In addition to individual entries, it includes an overview of Tang literature, a literary timeline of the Tang, and an explanation of official titles and ranks, making it an indispensable resource for anyone interested in classical Chinese poetry.

Author : William H. Nienhauser, Jr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 0253060273

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Biographical Dictionary of Tang Dynasty Literati by William H. Nienhauser, Jr. Pdf

The Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) is regarded as the golden age of classical Chinese literature. Compiled by award-winner author William H. Nienhauser, Jr., and Michael E. Naparstek, this is the first English-language biographical dictionary on this critical era in Chinese literary culture. The Biographical Dictionary of Tang Dynasty Literati contains 140 entries, including major figures like Du Fu and Li Bo, as well as entries on lesser-studied figures including Buddhist, Daoist, and women writers. To provide a complete sense of these men and women, each piece contains an overview of the subject's life, supported by translations and close readings of their writing and concludes with a bibliography of original sources, critical editions, translations, and studies in multiple languages. Appended are a literary timeline of the Tang and a glossary of official titles making the Dictionary an indispensable resource for all interested in classical Chinese literature.

Author : Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Sue Wiles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317515623

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Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Volume II by Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Sue Wiles Pdf

This volume of the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women completes the four-volume project and contains more than 400 biographies of women active in the Tang through Ming dynasties (618-1644). Many of the entries are the result of original research and provide the only substantial information on women available in English. Of note is the inclusion of a large number of women who reached positions of authority during this period as well as women artists and writers, especially poets, during this period of increased female literacy and more liberal social attitudes to women's cultural roles. Wherever possible, entries incorporate translations of poems and sometimes prose works so as to let the women speak for themselves. The book also includes a multitude of entertainers and actresses. The volume includes a Guide to Chinese Words Used, a Chronology of Dynasties and Major Rulers, a Finding List by Background or Fields of Endeavor, and a Glossary of Chinese Names. It will prove to be a useful tool for research and teaching.

Author : Zong-qi Cai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231555166

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How to Read Chinese Prose by Zong-qi Cai Pdf

This book offers a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and its literary and cultural significance. It features more than one hundred major texts from antiquity through the Qing dynasty that exemplify major genres, styles, and forms of traditional Chinese prose. For each work, the book presents an English translation, the Chinese original, and accessible critical commentary by leading scholars. How to Read Chinese Prose teaches readers to appreciate the literary merits, stylistic devices, rhetorical choices, and argumentative techniques of a wide range of nonfictional writing. It emphasizes the interconnections among individual texts and across eras, helping readers understand the development of the literary tradition and what makes particular texts formative or distinctive within it. Organized by dynastic period and genre, the book identifies and examines four broad categories of prose—narrative, expository, descriptive, and communicative. How to Read Chinese Prose is suitable for a range of courses in Chinese literature, history, religion, and philosophy, as well as for scholars and interested readers seeking to deepen their knowledge of the Chinese prose tradition. A companion book, How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese, is designed for Chinese-language learners and features many of the same texts.

Author : William H. Nienhauser
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789814719537

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Tang Dynasty Tales by William H. Nienhauser Pdf

"This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator's notes for these twelve tales provide insights into many aspects of Tang material culture and medieval thought, including Buddhism and Daoism. In addition to meticulously annotated translations, the book offers original texts (with some textual notes), and commentaries in the form of translator's notes, thereby joining the first volume of Tang tales as the only collections that introduce students to Tang tales while also challenging specialists interested in the field."--

Author : William H Nienhauser, Jr.
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789814719544

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Tang Dynasty Tales by William H Nienhauser, Jr. Pdf

' This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator''s notes for these twelve tales provide insights into many aspects of Tang material culture and medieval thought, including Buddhism and Daoism. In addition to meticulously annotated translations, the book offers original texts (with some textual notes), and commentaries in the form of translator''s notes, thereby joining the first volume of Tang tales as the only collections that introduce students to Tang tales while also challenging specialists interested in the field. Contents:"The Tale of the Supernatural Marriage at Dongting" 洞庭靈姻傳 (Li Chaowei 李朝威)"Zhang Lao" 張老 (Li Liang 李諒)"Yin Tianxiang" 殷天祥 (Shen Fen 沈汾)"Xue Yi" 薛義 (Dai Fu 戴孚)"An Account of Feng Yan" 馮燕傳 (Shen Yazhi 沈亞之)"A Record of Dream of Qin" 秦夢記 (Shen Yazhi 沈亞之)"The Biography of Ge Hua, Marquis of Xiapi" 下邳候革華傳 (Anonymous)"An Account of Mid-rivers" 河間傳 (Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元)"Scholar Cui" 崔書生 (Niu Sengru 牛僧孺)"Third Lady of Plank Bridge Inn" 板橋三娘子 (Xue Yusi 薛漁思)"An Account of Xie Xiao''e" 謝小娥傳 (Li Gongzuo 李公左)"Monk Attached to Emptiness" 僧契虛 (Zhang Du 張讀) Readership: Academics and students interested in medieval Chinese literature; general public interested in early fiction. Key Features:Expands the corpus of Tang tales by including several previously untranslated works from the Daoist and Buddhist traditionsIncludes examples of the well-known pseudo-biographies by Liu Zongyuan and a follower of Han YuMany aspects of Tang culture are explained in the notesKeywords:Tang Tales;Traditional Fiction;Chinese Narratives;Tang Culture;Chuanqi;Tang Literature'

Author : Lily Xiao Hong Lee,A.D. Stefanowska,Sue Wiles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317475903

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Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity Through Sui, 1600 B.C.E. - 618 C.E by Lily Xiao Hong Lee,A.D. Stefanowska,Sue Wiles Pdf

This new volume of the "Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women" spans more than 2,000 years from antiquity to the early seventh century. It recovers the stories of more than 200 women, nearly all of them unknown in the West. The contributors have sifted carefully through the available sources, from the oracle bones to the earliest legends, from Liu Xiang's didactic Biographies to official and unofficial histories, for glimpses and insights into the lives of women. Empresses and consorts, nuns and shamans, women of notoriety or exemplary virtue, women of daring and women of artistic or scholarly accomplishment - all are to be found here. The editors have assembled the stories of women high born and low, representing the full range of female endeavor. The biographies are organized alphabetically within three historical groupings, to give some context to lives lived in changing circumstances over two millennia. A glossary, a chronology, and a finding list that identifies women of each period by background or field of endeavor are also provided.

Author : Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Clara Lau,A.D. Stefanowska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317475873

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Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644-1911 by Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Clara Lau,A.D. Stefanowska Pdf

The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, this reference is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by a team of over 60 China scholars from around the world. Compiled from a wide array of original sources, these detailed biographies present the lives, work, and significance of more than 200 Chinese women from many different backgrounds and areas of interest.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780765641823

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Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward W. Wagner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684171897

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The Literati Purges by Edward W. Wagner Pdf

A detailed study of the factional struggles and political purges that occurred in Yi Korea in 1498, 1504, and 1519. Also includes a description of the administrative structure of the early Yi dynasty government.

Author : Youru Wang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781538105528

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Historical Dictionary of Chan Buddhism by Youru Wang Pdf

The popular name for Chan Buddhism, in the West, is Zen Buddhism, as it was Japanese scholars who first introduced Chan Buddhism to the West with this translation. Indeed, chan is a shortened form of the Chinese word channa, rendered from the Sanskrit word dhyāna, which denotes practices of the concentration of the mind through meditation or contemplation. Although rooted in the Indian tradition of yoga, which aims at the unification of the individual with the divine, meditative concentration became integrated into the Buddhist path to enlightenment as one of the three learnings (sanxue) of Buddhism. Early Buddhist (or the so-called Hinayana Buddhist) scriptures include the teachings on four stages of meditation, four divine abodes, four formless meditations, the tranquility (samatha) and insight (vipassanā) meditations, and so on. Early Buddhist communities commonly practiced these meditations, along with the moral disciplines and the study of the scriptures and doctrines. Mahayana Buddhism, in India and East Asia, continued the practice of meditation as one of the six perfections (or virtues) of the bodhisattva path. In this general context, some eminent monks might have composed scriptures/treatises for the training of meditation or have become more famed with meditation. However, the school of Chan is more than just a group of meditation practitioners. As one of the Chinese Buddhist schools, it involves its own ideology, its own community, and its own genealogical history, serving to establish its own identity. The Historical Dictionary of Chan Buddhism contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, schools, texts, vocabularies, doctrines, rituals, temples, events, and other practices. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Chan Buddhism.

Author : Lily Xiao Hong Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315499246

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Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 2: Twentieth Century by Lily Xiao Hong Lee Pdf

The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by scores of China scholars from around the world. Volume II: Twentieth Century includes a far greater range of women than would have been previously possible because of the enormous amount of historical material and scholarly research that has become available recently. They include scientists, businesswomen, sportswomen, military officers, writers, scholars, revolutionary heroines, politicians, musicians, opera stars, film stars, artists, educators, nuns, and more.

Author : Lily Xiao Hong Lee,A. D. Stefanowska,Sue Wiles
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 797 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : China
ISBN : 9780765607980

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Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women by Lily Xiao Hong Lee,A. D. Stefanowska,Sue Wiles Pdf

A biographical dictionary devoted to Chinese women, this text is the result of years of research, translation and writing from contributors from around the world. This volume focuses on the 20th century and includes sportwomen, film stars, musicians, politicians, artists, educators and more.

Author : Lara C.W. Blanchard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004369399

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Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire by Lara C.W. Blanchard Pdf

In Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire, Lara Blanchard examines the writing of interiority in paintings of women, considering correspondences to examples of erotic poetry and how such works address the concerns of artists, patrons, and viewers.

Author : Tze-ki Hon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791484005

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The Yijing and Chinese Politics by Tze-ki Hon Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive study of Yijing (Book of Changes) commentary during the Northern Song period, showing how it reflects a coming to terms with major political and social changes. Seen as a transitional period in China's history, the Northern Song (960–1127) is often described as the midpoint in the Tang-Song transition or as the beginning of Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism. Challenging this traditional view, Tze-ki Hon demonstrates the complexity of the Northern Song by breaking it into three periods characterized by, alternately, the reestablishment of civil governance, large-scale reforms, and a descent into factional rivalry. To illustrate the distinct characteristics of these three periods, Hon compares commentaries by Hu Yuan, Zhang Zai, and Cheng Yi with five other Yijing commentaries, highlighting the broad parameters, as well as the specific content, of an extremely important world of discourse—the debate on literati activism. These differing views on the literati's role in civil governance prove how lively, diverse, and intense Northern Song intellectual life was, while also reminding us how important it is to understand the history of the period on its own terms.