Early medieval China : a sourcebook / edited by Wendy Swartz, Robert Ford Campany, Yang Lu, and Jessey J.C. Choo.

Contributor Swartz, Wendy, 1972- author, editor of compilation.

Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.

Descriptionxxi, 720 pages : map ; 25 cm.

Note:Return to the north? : the debate on moving the capi tal back to Luoyang / Jessey J.C. Choo -- The disputation at Pengcheng : accounts from the Wei Shu and the Song Shu / Albert E. Dien -- Between imitation and mockery : the southern treatments of northern cultures / Jessey J.C. Choo -- Literary imagination of the north and south / Ping Wang -- Managing locality in early medieval China : evidence from Changsha / Yang Lu -- Classical scholarship in the Shu region : the case of Qiao Zhou / J. Michael Farmer -- Ranking men and assessing talent : Xiahou Xuan's response to an inquiry by Sima Yi / Timothy M. Davis -- On land and wealth : Liu Zishang's "petition on closing off mountains and lakes" and Yang Xi's "discussion on abolishing old regulations regarding mountains and marshes" / Charles Holcombe -- Crime and punishment : the case of Liu Hui in the Wei Shu / Jen-der Lee -- Marriage and social status : Shen Yue's "Impeaching Wang Yuan" / David R. Knechtges -- Religion and society on the Silk Road : the inscriptional evidence from Turfan / Huaiyu Chen -- The art of discourse : Xi Kang's "Sound is without sadness or joy" / Robert Ashmore -- Poetry on the mysterious : the writings of Sun Chuo / Paul W. Kroll -- The art of poetry writing : Liu Xiaochuo's "Becoming the number-one person for the number-one position" / Ping Wang -- Poems from a Liang dynasty princely court / Xiaofei Tian -- Pei Ziye's "Discourse on insect carving" / Jack W. Chen -- Classifying the literary tradition : Zhi Yu's "discourse on literary compositions divided by genre" / Wendy Swartz -- Zhong Rong's preface to grades of the poets / Stephen Owen -- Book collecting and cataloging in the age of manuscript culture : Xiao Yi's master of the golden tower and Ruan Xiaoxu's preface to seven records / Xiaofei Tian.

Note:Biographies of recluses : Huangfu Mi's accounts of high-minded men / Alan Berkowitz -- Classifications of people and conduct : selections from Liu Shao's treatise on personality and Liu Yiqing's recent anecdotes from the talk of the ages / Jack W. Chen -- The literary community at the court of the Liang crown prince / Ping Wang -- Self-narration : Tao Yuanming's "Biography of the master of five willows" and Yuan Can's "Biography of the master of wonderful virtue" / Wendy Swartz -- On political and personal fate : three selections from Jiang Yan's prose and verse / Paul W. Kroll -- The shadow image in the cave : discourse on icons / Eugene Wang -- Dietary habits : Shu Xi's "Rhapsody on pasta" / David R. Knechtges -- The epitaph of a third-century wet nurse, Xu Yi / Jen-der Lee -- Festival and ritual calendar : selections from record of the year and seasons of Jing-Chu / Ian Chapman -- Custom and society : the family instructions of Mr. Yan / Albert E. Dien -- Adoption and motherhood : "The petition submitted by Lady [nee] Yu" / Jessey J.C. Choo -- Estate culture in early medieval China : the case of Shi Chong / David R. Knechtges -- Biographies of eight autocremators and Huijiao's "Critical evaluation" / James A. Benn -- Divine instructions for an official / Stephen R. Bokenkamp -- Tales of strange events / Robert Ford Campany -- Texts for stabilizing tombs / Timothy M. Davis -- Reciting scriptures to move the spirits / Clarke Hudson -- Confucian views of the supernatural / Keith N. Knapp -- Encounters in mountains / Gil Raz.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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