Beacon fire and shooting star : the literary culture of the Liang (502-557) /

"The Liang dynasty is both one of the most brilliant and creative periods in Chinese history and one of the most underestimated and misunderstood." "This book is devoted to contextualizing the literary culture of this era - not only the literary works themselves but also the physical...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tian, Xiaofei, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007.
Series:Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series.
Subjects:
221 B.C.-960 A.D
Geschichte.
Geschichte 502-557.
Chinese literature > Northern and Southern dynasties, 386-589 > History and criticism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Corporate & Business History.
Chinese literature.
Civilization.
Northern and Southern Dynasties (China)
Liangdynastie
Literatur
Kultur
Littérature chinoise.
Littérature > Histoire et critique.
China > Civilization > 221 B.C.-960 A.D.
Chine > Civilisation > 221 av. J.-C.-960.
China.
China
Chine > 386-589 (Dynasties du Nord et du Sud)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The rule of Emperor Wu
  • Mapping the cultural world (I): managing texts
  • Mapping the cultural world (II): contextualizing taste
  • The pleasure of the superfluous: palace style poetry and resistance to canonization
  • Illusion and illumination: a new poetics of seeing
  • "Suppression of the light": Xiao Gang, Prince and poet
  • The cultural construction of the North and South
  • Parting ways
  • The aftermath and the Romanticization of the Liang.

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