Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Reading the reign of Tang Taizong (r. 626-649)
  • On sovereignty and representation
  • The reception of literature in Tang Taizong's court
  • The writing of imperial poetry in medieval China
  • The significance of court poetry
  • Palatial form and the rhapsodic imagination
  • On "The imperial capital poems": ritual sovereignty and imperial askesis.