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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London :
Published by Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press,
2015.
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;
96. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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 |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 363 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-356) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781684170807 168417080X |