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One who knows me : friendship and literary culture in Mid-Tang China /

"Explores the literature of the mid-Tang to reveal the complex value that its writers discovered in friendship--as a rewarding social practice, a rich literary topic, a way to negotiate literati identity, and a path toward self-understanding. Shields traces the evolution of the performance of f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shields, Anna M., 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : Published by Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 96.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Explores the literature of the mid-Tang to reveal the complex value that its writers discovered in friendship--as a rewarding social practice, a rich literary topic, a way to negotiate literati identity, and a path toward self-understanding. Shields traces the evolution of the performance of friendship through a wide range of genres, including letters, prefaces, exchange poetry, and funerary texts, and weaves elegant translations with close readings of these texts"--Provided by the publisher
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 363 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-356) and index.
ISBN:9781684170807
168417080X