Court Culture and Literature in Early China
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Variorum Collected Studies
ISBN-10
0860788849
ISBN-13
9780860788843
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Variorum
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 15th, 2002
Print length
296 Pages
Weight
710 grams
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The articles collected in this volume concern the literature and culture of the ancient Chinese court. The court, especially the imperial court, was a major centre for cultural production. It played an important role in education, scholarship, thought, art, music and literature.
The studies brought together here focus upon the literary and cultural activity of the Chinese court during the Han and early medieval period. The first section concerns court literature in the Former Han and deals with the role of literature, especially poetry, at both the imperial and princely courts, including one study of the writings attributed to an imperial concubine, who used poetry to express her resentment at falling from the emperor’s favour. The next section looks at a leading court writer of the Late Western Han dynasty, Yang Xiong, while the third part deals with the leading poetic genre of this period, the fu or rhapsody. These papers examine major themes such as praise, travel, dating and authenticity, and problems of translation. The volume concludes with two articles on food culture in early and medieval China.
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