Memory in medieval China: text, ritual, and community

by Campany, Robert Ford Swartz, Wendy

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Full title :Memory in medieval China : text, ritual, and community / edited by Wendy Swartz, Robert Ford Campany.

Summary

"Memory is not an inert container but a dynamic process. It can be structured by ritual, constrained by textual genre, and shaped by communities' expectations and reception. Urging a particular view of the past on readers is a complex rhetorical act. The collective reception of portrayals of the past often carries weighty implications for the present and future. The essays collected in this volume investigate various aspects of memory in medieval China (ca. 100-900 CE) as performed in various genres of writing, from poetry to anecdotes, from history to tomb epitaphs. They illuminate ways in which the memory of individual persons, events, dynasties, and literary styles was constructed and revised through processes of writing and reading. Contributors include: Sarah M. Allen, Robert Ashmore, Robert Ford Campany, Jack W. Chen, Alexei Ditter, Meow Hui Goh, Christopher M. B. Nugent, Xiaofei Tian, Wendy Swartz, Ping Wang"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 270 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789004368620, 9004368620
oclc:on1028827072
LC Classification:PL2283
Dewey Decimal:895.109/002

Subjects

221 B.C.-960 A.D China Chinese literature Chinese literature -- History and criti… Chinesisch Collective memory in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc Literatur Littérature chinoise -- Histoire et cri… Mémoire collective -- Dans la littératu… Mémoire dans la littérature Memory in literature