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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contexts for Friendship in Mid-Tang Literary Culture
- The Discourse of Friendship
- Historical Patterns
- Social and Cultural Contexts
- Building Networks: Friendship, Patronage, and Celebrity
- Seeking a Patron: Writing for the zhiji
- Selling Meng Jiao: Friendship and Patronage
- Becoming Bai Juyi: Friendship and Celebrity
- Responding in Kind: Friendship and Poetic Exchange
- Mid-Tang Perspectives on Poetic Exchange and Friendship
- Collaboration and Competition: The Linked Verses of Han Yu and Meng Jiao
- Contesting the Past: The Nostalgic Exchanges of Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen
- To Know and Be Known: The Epistemology of Friendship
- Epistemological Dimensions of Letters to Friends
- Understanding: Using the Knowledge of Friendship
- Misunderstanding: Negotiating Criticism and Conflict
- Coda: In the Absence of Knowledge
- For the Dead and the Living: Performing Friendship after Death
- Funerary Inscriptions for Friends
- Offering Texts and the Performance of Friendship
- Writing the Life and Death of Han Yu.