"This volume is the first complete English rendition of the 45 famous tales in the monumental anthology masterfully selected and edited by Lu Xun (1881-1936). It is the most distinctive, authoritative, and influential chuanqi collection thus far, and many of the pieces are rende…
The assassin: Hou Hsiao-Hsien's world of Tang China
Ethnic identity in Tang China: Marc S. Abramson
"Ethnic Identity in Tang China is the first work in any language to explore comprehensively the construction of ethnicity during the dynasty that reigned over China for roughly three centuries, from 618 to 907. Often viewed as one of the most cosmopolitan regimes in China's past…
"The Way of the Barbarians examines a critical period in the development of conceptions of Chinese identity and of foreignness. After tracing thought about culture, customs, ritual, and ethnicity to BCE classical texts, Shao-yun Yang focuses on the meaning and boundaries of Chin…
During the Tang dynasty (618-907), changes in political policies, the religious landscape, and gender relations opened the possibility for Daoist women to play an unprecedented role in religious and public life. Women, from imperial princesses to the daughters of commoner famili…
"In Monastic Life in Medieval Daoism, a senior scholar of Daoist studies presents for the first time a detailed description and analysis of the organization and practices of medieval Daoist monasteries. Following an introduction to the wider, comparative issues involved in the s…
Meyer (Leiden U.) examines the life and works of Wu Yun (d. 778), a scholarly hermit who was later ordained as a Daoist priest and appointed Hanlin Academician in Attendance, and so was a privileged witness to Xuanzong's Daoist experiment. After Xuanzong's downfall, she recounts…
This book explores, through a series of essays, a set of interrelated elements that define the literary culture of China in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. This period, known as the Mid-Tang, broke with many of the intellectual habits of the 'middle period' of Chinese…
This book explores, through a series of essays, a set of interrelated elements that define the literary culture of China in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. This period, known as the Mid-Tang, broke with many of the intellectual habits of the 'middle period' of Chinese…
"This book delineates the correlation between the evolution of the private sphere and the conscious efforts of Chinese literati to search for and formulate alternatives when conventional values, whether political, moral, or aesthetic, were found to be inapplicable or inadequate.…
Introduction -- Geographical advancements in the mid-Tang -- The big picture: poetic visions and the cartographic eye -- The shifting shapes of the local sphere: map-guides and literary writing -- Into the deep south: the aesthetics of new landmark creation -- Bai Juyi and Yuan …
