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The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsui (1007-72)

Author : Ronald C. Egan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0521101549

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The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsui (1007-72) by Ronald C. Egan Pdf

The book is a literary study of one of the greatest of Chinese writers, Ou-yang Hsiu. He was a major writer in each of several genres: prose, poetry, rhapsodies, and tz'u 'songs'. The striking diversity of his work presents an opportunity to investigate how one man's literary talent is manifested in different genres. Ou-yang Hsiu's achievements in each genre are examined, and set in the context of his age. Topics include the broad shift between T'ang and Sung dynasty prose styles that Ou-yang Hsiu helped to effect, his contributions to the new poetic values of the Northern Sung, and his place in the evolution of Sung dynasty songs (together with a reconsideration of a group of supposedly spurious songs). An appendix provides additional translations of Ou-yang Hsiu's prose.

Encyclopedia of the Essay

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314101

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Encyclopedia of the Essay by Tracy Chevalier Pdf

This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies

Inscribed Landscapes

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520914865

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Inscribed Landscapes by Anonim Pdf

Alongside the scores of travel books about China written by foreign visitors, Chinese travelers' impressions of their own country rarely appear in translation. This anthology is the only comprehensive collection in English of Chinese travel writing from the first century A.D. through the nineteenth. Early examples of the genre describe sites important for their geography, history, and role in cultural mythology, but by the T'ang dynasty in the mid-eighth century certain historiographical and poetic discourses converged to form the "travel account" (yu-chi) and later the "travel diary" (jih-chi) as vehicles of personal expression and autobiography. These first-person narratives provide rich material for understanding the attitudes of Chinese literati toward place, nature, politics, and the self. The anthology is abundantly illustrated with paintings, portraits, maps, and drawings. Each selection is meticulously translated, carefully annotated, and prefaced by a brief description of the writer's life and work. The entire collection is introduced by an in-depth survey of the rise of Chinese travel writing as a cultural phenomenon. Inscribed Landscapes provides a unique resource for travelers as well as for scholars of Chinese literature, art, and history.

Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts of Early Muromachi Japan (1336-1573)

Author : Joe Parker
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438415536

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Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts of Early Muromachi Japan (1336-1573) by Joe Parker Pdf

Examining inscriptions on landscape paintings and related documents, this book explores the views of the "two jewels" of Japanese Zen literature, Gido Shushin (1325-1388) and Zekkai Chushin (1336-1405), and their students. These monks played important roles as advisors to the shoguns Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358-1408) and Yoshimochi (1386-1428), as well as to major figures in various michi or Ways of linked verse, the No theatre, ink painting, rock gardens, and other arts. By applying images of mountain retreats to their busy urban lives in the capital, these Five Mountain Zen monks provoke reconsiderations of the relation between secular and sacred and nature and culture.

Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament

Author : Victor H. Mair,Zhenjun Zhang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781350337220

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Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament by Victor H. Mair,Zhenjun Zhang Pdf

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.

The Oxford History of Historical Writing

Author : Sarah Foot,Chase F. Robinson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191636936

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The Oxford History of Historical Writing by Sarah Foot,Chase F. Robinson Pdf

How was history written in Europe and Asia between 400-1400? How was the past understood in religious, social and political terms? And in what ways does the diversity of historical writing in this period mask underlying commonalities in narrating the past? The volume, which assembles 28 contributions from leading historians, tackles these and other questions. Part I provides comprehensive overviews of the development of historical writing in societies that range from the Korean Peninsula to north-west Europe, which together highlight regional and cultural distinctiveness. Part II complements the first part by taking a thematic and comparative approach; it includes essays on genre, warfare, and religion (amongst others) which address common concerns of historians working in this liminal period before the globalizing forces of the early modern world.

The Oxford History of Historical Writing

Author : Daniel R. Woolf,Andrew Feldherr,Sarah Foot,Grant Hardy,Chase F. Robinson,Ian Hesketh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199236428

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The Oxford History of Historical Writing by Daniel R. Woolf,Andrew Feldherr,Sarah Foot,Grant Hardy,Chase F. Robinson,Ian Hesketh Pdf

A collection of essays from leading historians which explores the ways in which history was written in Europe and Asian between 400 and 1400.

Ordering the World

Author : Robert Hymes,Conrad Schirokauer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520378223

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Ordering the World by Robert Hymes,Conrad Schirokauer Pdf

The Sung Dynasty (960–1278) was a time of vast changes and new challenges in China. The growth of the urban and rural economics, population increase, the emergence of an educated elite, political and intellectual ferment, and threats from hostile neighbors are some of the forces that shaped the age. How did Sung statesmen and thinkers view the relation of state and society and the role of political action in solving society’s ills? The essays in Ordering the World explore contemporary ideas underlying policies, programs, and institutions of the period and examine attitudes toward history and sources of authority. Their findings have important implications for our understanding of the neo-Confucian movement in Sung history and of the Sung in the history of Chinese ideas about politics and social action. Contents: Introduction by Conrad Schirokauer and Robert P. Hymes “Su Hsun’s Pragmatic Statecraft,” by George Hatch “State Power and Economic Activism during the New Policies, 1068–1085,” by Paul J. Smith “Government, Society, and State,” by Peter K. Bol “Chu Hsi’s Sense of History,” by Conrad Schirokauer “Community and Welfare,” by Richard von Glahn “Charitable Estates as an Aspect of Statecraft in Southern Sung China,” by Linda Walton “Moral Duty and Self-Regulating Process in Southern Sung Views of Famine Relief,” by Robert P. Hymes “The Historian as Critic,” by John W. Chaffee “Wei Liao-weng’s Thwarted Statecraft,” by James T. C. Liu “Chen Te-hsiu and Statecraft,” by Wm. Theodore de Bary This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

All Mine!

Author : Stephen Owen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231554879

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All Mine! by Stephen Owen Pdf

Under the Song Dynasty, China experienced rapid commercial growth and monetization of the economy. In the same period, the austere ethical turn that led to neo-Confucianism was becoming increasingly prevalent in the imperial bureaucracy and literati culture. Tracing the influences of these trends in Chinese intellectual history, All Mine! explores the varied ways in which eleventh-century writers worked through the conflicting values of this new world. Stephen Owen contends that in the new money economy of the Song, writers became preoccupied with the question of whether material things can bring happiness. Key thinkers returned to this problem, weighing the conflicting influences of worldly possessions and material comfort against Confucian ideology, which locates true contentment in the Way and disdains attachment to things. In a series of essays, Owen examines the works of writers such as the prose master Ouyang Xiu, who asked whether tranquility could be found in the backwater to which he had been exiled; the poet and essayist Su Dongpo, who was put on trial for slandering the emperor; and the historian Sima Guang, whose private garden elicited reflections on private ownership. Through strikingly original readings of major eleventh-century figures, All Mine! inquires not only into the material conditions of happiness but also the broader conditions of knowledge.

A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China

Author : Benjamin A. Elman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520215092

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A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China by Benjamin A. Elman Pdf

"A very important study of one of the most important institutions in Chinese history, one without which the China we have today would certainly be a vastly different place."—Peter Bol, author of "This Culture of Ours": Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung China

A Guide to Chinese Literature

Author : Wilt Idema,Lloyd Haft
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780892641239

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A Guide to Chinese Literature by Wilt Idema,Lloyd Haft Pdf

Selected for Choice's list of Outstanding Academic Books for 1997. A comprehensive overview of China's 3,000 years of literary history, from its beginnings to the present day. After an introductory section discussing the concept of literature and other features of traditional Chinese society crucial to understanding its writings, the second part is broken into five major time periods (earliest times to 100 c.e.; 100-1000; 1000-1875; 1875-1915; and 1915 to the present) corresponding to changes in book production. The development of the major literary genres is traced in each of these periods. The reference section in the cloth edition includes an annotated bibliography of more than 120 pages; the paper edition has a shorter bibliography and is intended for classroom use.

A Dictionary of Chinese Literature

Author : Taiping Chang Knechtges
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192513939

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A Dictionary of Chinese Literature by Taiping Chang Knechtges Pdf

A Dictionary of Chinese Literature provides more than 250 entries on the lengthy and remarkable literary tradition of China, from its earliest literary genres such as the 6th century gongti wenxue (palace-style literature), to contemporary forms, such as wanglu wenxue (internet literature). Covering notable writers, works, terms, trends, schools, movements, styles, and literary collections, as well as including a useful list of further reading at the end of most entries, this dictionary is a key reference point for students of Asian literature and languages, and those studying world literature in general.

The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature

Author : William H. Nienhauser
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 025333456X

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The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature by William H. Nienhauser Pdf

""A vertitable feast of concise, useful, reliable, and up-to-dateinformation (all prepared by top scholars in the field), Nienhauser's now two-volumetitle stands alone as THE standard reference work for the study of traditionalChinese literature. Nothing like it has ever been published."" --Choice The second volume to The Indiana Companion to TraditionalChinese Literature is both a supplement and an update to the original volume. VolumeII includes over 60 new entries on famous writers, works, and genres of traditionalChinese literature, followed by an extensive bibliographic update (1985-1997) ofeditions, translations, and studies (primarily in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and German) for the 500+ entries of Volume I.

Death Rituals and Politics in Northern Song China

Author : Mihwa Choi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190459789

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Death Rituals and Politics in Northern Song China by Mihwa Choi Pdf

In traditional China, a funeral and the accompanying death rituals represented a critical moment for the immediate family of the deceased to show their filial piety, a core value of the society. At the same time, death rituals were social occasions, and channels for the outward demonstration of belief in a religiously pluralistic society. During the Northern Song period, however, death rituals increasingly became an arena for political contention as attempts were made to transform these practices from a private matter into one subject to state control. Death Rituals and Politics in Northern Song China examines how political confrontations over the proper conduct of death rituals during Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) inaugurated a period of Confucian revivalism. Mihwa Choi interprets Northern Song court politics, family ritual practices, burial practices, and the popular imagination of the afterlife as sites of contest between groups of varying social status, political vision, and religious belief. She demonstrates that the oversight of ritual affairs by scholar-officials helped them gain the political upper hand they sought, and, more broadly, fostered a revival of Confucianism as the dominant value system of Chinese society in the period that followed.

Interpretation and Intellectual Change

Author : Ching-I Tu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351511773

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Interpretation and Intellectual Change by Ching-I Tu Pdf

"This volume deals with the development of Chinese hermeneutics, or exegetic systems, from their beginnings to the twentieth century. The contributors address critical issues in the study of Chinese hermeneutics by focusing on key periods during which the hermeneutic tradition in China underwent significant changes.The volume is divided into six parts, corresponding to the six major periods of intellectual change in traditional and contemporary China. Part 1 considers the foundational period of Chinese hermeneutics, examining Confucian classics such as the Analects, Mencius, and the Book of Odes. Part 2 traces the broadening of the hermeneutic tradition from Confucian classics to the military canon, political discourse, astronomy, and Buddhist exegesis from the Han to the Chinese Middle Ages. In Part 3 the focus is on Zhu Xi's monumental synthesis and redefinition of the Confucian tradition at the beginning of the early modern period. His vision of Confucian thought remained influential throughout the imperial period, and his interpretations of the Confucian classics became state orthodoxy starting with the thirteenth century. Part 4 focuses on this challenge and discusses the intellectual changes that took place during the late imperial period and their profound effects on Chinese hermeneutics. Part 5 documents the challenges to traditional Chinese hermeneutics in the modern era and the emergence of a new, critical hermeneutics in the beginning of the twentieth century. The volume concludes with Part 6, which explores Chinese hermeneutics from a comparative perspective and identifies its distinctive features.The understanding of Chinese hermeneutics gained from these essays is that of a dynamic plurality of traditions that has endured into the twentieth century and continues to shape contemporary intellectual debates."