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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
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.