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A history of Chinese letters and epistolary culture /
Dedicated to the study of Chinese epistolary literature and culture from the early empire to the twentieth century, the twenty-five essays of A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture discuss a wealth of epistolary topics and provide numerous translations.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2015.
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| Colección: | Handbuch der Orientalistik. China ;
31 Bd. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; About the Contributors; Introduction: The Study of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture; Part 1 Material Aspects of Chinese Letter Writing Culture; Chapter 1 Reconstructing the Postal Relay System of the Han Period; Chapter 2 Letters as Calligraphy Exemplars: The Long and Eventful Life of Yan Zhenqing's (709-785) Imperial Commissioner Liu Letter; Chapter 3 Chinese Decorated Letter Papers; Chapter 4 Material and Symbolic Economies: Letters and Gifts in Early Medieval China; Part 2 Contemplating the Genre.
- Chapter 5 Letters in the Wen xuanChapter 6 Between Letter and Testament: Letters of Familial Admonition in Han and Six Dynasties China; Chapter 7 The Space of Separation: The Early Medieval Tradition of Four-Syllable "Presentation and Response" Poetry; Chapter 8 Letters and Memorials in the Early Third Century: The Case of Cao Zhi; Chapter 9 Liu Xie's Institutional Mind: Letters, Administrative Documents, and Political Imagination in Fifth- and Sixth-Century China; Chapter 10 Bureaucratic Influences on Letters in Middle Period China: Observations from Manuscript Letters and Literati Discourse.
- Part 3 Diversity of Content and StyleSection 1 Informal Letters; Chapter 11 Private Letter Manuscripts from Early Imperial China; Chapter 12 Su Shi's Informal Letters in Literature and Life; Chapter 13 The Letter as Artifact of Sentiment and Legal Evidence; Chapter 14 Infinite Variations of Writing and Desire: Love Letters in China and Europe; Chapter 15 Writing from Revolution's Debris: Shen Congwen's Family Letters in the Mao Era; Section 2 Literary Letters; Chapter 16 Captured in Words: Functions and Limits of Autobiographical Expression in Early Chinese Epistolary Literature.
- Chapter 17 Civil Examinations and Cover Letters in the Mid-Tang: Dugu Yu's (776-815) "Letter Submitted to Attendant Gentleman Quan of the Ministry of Rites"Chapter 18 The Inscription of Emotion in Mid-Tang Collegial Letters; Chapter 19 Halves and Holes: Collections, Networks, and Epistolary Practices of Chan Monks; Chapter 20 Letters as Windows on Ming-Qing Women's Literary Culture; Chapter 21 Epistolary Networks and Practice in the Early Qing: The Letters Written to Yan Guangmin; Section 3 Open Letters; Chapter 22 Aid and Comfort: Lu Zhaolin's Letters.
- Chapter 23 She Association Circulars from DunhuangChapter 24 Between Writing and Publishing Letters: Publishing a Letter about Book Proprietorship; Chapter 25 Opinions Going Public: Letters to the Editors in China's Earliest Modern Newspapers; Scholarship on Chinese Epistolary Literature and Culture: A Select Bibliography; Index.