| Description |
1 online resource (376 p.) |
| Series |
Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law Ser |
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Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- One Who Knows Me: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Figuring Friendship -- CHAPTER ONE: Contexts for Friendship in Mid-Tang Literary Culture -- The Discourse of Friendship -- Historical Patterns -- Social and Cultural Contexts -- CHAPTER TWO: 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 -- CHAPTER THREE: Responding in Kind: Friendship and Poetic Exchange |
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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 -- CHAPTER FOUR: 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 -- CHAPTER FIVE: For the Dead and the Living: Performing Friendship after Death -- Funerary Inscriptions for Friends |
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Offering Texts and the Performance of Friendship -- Writing the Life and Death of Han Yu -- CONCLUSION -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Chinese literature -- Tang dynasty, 618-907 -- History and criticism
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Chinese literature.
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Tang Dynasty (China)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781684170807 |
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168417080X |
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