Biographical Dictionary of Tang Dynasty Literati
Biographical Dictionary of Tang Dynasty Literati

Author: William H. Nienhauser, Jr.

Publisher:

Published: 2022-04-05

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 9780253060266

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Many regard the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) as the most important era for classical Chinese poetry, with around fifty thousand poems from the period surviving to the modern era. The great poets--Li Bo, Wang Wei, Du Fu, Bo--all lived in the Tang Dynasty. Meticulously researched and featuring many examples of their writings, the Biographical Dictionary of Tang Dynasty Literati presents 139 biographies of classical Chinese poets. Compiled by award-winner author William H. Nienhauser, Jr., and Michael E. Naparstek, this book is the first comprehensive dictionary of writers during the Tang dynasty. In addition to individual entries, it includes an overview of Tang literature, a literary timeline of the Tang, and an explanation of official titles and ranks, making it an indispensable resource for anyone interested in classical Chinese poetry.

Biographical Dictionary of Tang Dynasty Literati
Biographical Dictionary of Tang Dynasty Literati

Author: William H. Nienhauser, Jr.

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 9780253060273

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The Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) is regarded as the golden age of classical Chinese literature. Compiled by award-winner author William H. Nienhauser, Jr., and Michael E. Naparstek, this is the first English-language biographical dictionary on this critical era in Chinese literary culture. The Biographical Dictionary of Tang Dynasty Literati contains 140 entries, including major figures like Du Fu and Li Bo, as well as entries on lesser-studied figures including Buddhist, Daoist, and women writers. To provide a complete sense of these men and women, each piece contains an overview of the subject's life, supported by translations and close readings of their writing and concludes with a bibliography of original sources, critical editions, translations, and studies in multiple languages. Appended are a literary timeline of the Tang and a glossary of official titles making the Dictionary an indispensable resource for all interested in classical Chinese literature.

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Volume II
Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Volume II

Author: Lily Xiao Hong Lee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-01-28

Total Pages: 717

ISBN-13: 1317515625

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This volume of the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women completes the four-volume project and contains more than 400 biographies of women active in the Tang through Ming dynasties (618-1644). Many of the entries are the result of original research and provide the only substantial information on women available in English. Of note is the inclusion of a large number of women who reached positions of authority during this period as well as women artists and writers, especially poets, during this period of increased female literacy and more liberal social attitudes to women's cultural roles. Wherever possible, entries incorporate translations of poems and sometimes prose works so as to let the women speak for themselves. The book also includes a multitude of entertainers and actresses. The volume includes a Guide to Chinese Words Used, a Chronology of Dynasties and Major Rulers, a Finding List by Background or Fields of Endeavor, and a Glossary of Chinese Names. It will prove to be a useful tool for research and teaching.

Ordering Tang China
Ordering Tang China

Author: Kelly Ngo

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2024-12-10

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1643150707

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Analysis of a seventh-century Chinese anthology on imperial governance

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity Through Sui, 1600 B.C.E. - 618 C.E
Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity Through Sui, 1600 B.C.E. - 618 C.E

Author: Lily Xiao Hong Lee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-26

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 1317475909

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This new volume of the "Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women" spans more than 2,000 years from antiquity to the early seventh century. It recovers the stories of more than 200 women, nearly all of them unknown in the West. The contributors have sifted carefully through the available sources, from the oracle bones to the earliest legends, from Liu Xiang's didactic Biographies to official and unofficial histories, for glimpses and insights into the lives of women. Empresses and consorts, nuns and shamans, women of notoriety or exemplary virtue, women of daring and women of artistic or scholarly accomplishment - all are to be found here. The editors have assembled the stories of women high born and low, representing the full range of female endeavor. The biographies are organized alphabetically within three historical groupings, to give some context to lives lived in changing circumstances over two millennia. A glossary, a chronology, and a finding list that identifies women of each period by background or field of endeavor are also provided.

Tang Dynasty Tales
Tang Dynasty Tales

Author: William H. Nienhauser

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 9814719536

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"This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator's notes for these twelve tales provide insights into many aspects of Tang material culture and medieval thought, including Buddhism and Daoism. In addition to meticulously annotated translations, the book offers original texts (with some textual notes), and commentaries in the form of translator's notes, thereby joining the first volume of Tang tales as the only collections that introduce students to Tang tales while also challenging specialists interested in the field."--

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644-1911
Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644-1911

Author: Lily Xiao Hong Lee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-07-17

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1317475879

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The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, this reference is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by a team of over 60 China scholars from around the world. Compiled from a wide array of original sources, these detailed biographies present the lives, work, and significance of more than 200 Chinese women from many different backgrounds and areas of interest.

The Grand Scribe's Records
The Grand Scribe's Records

Author: Qian Sima

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9780253340221

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This second volume of the ongoing annotated translation of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Shi chi(The Grand Scribe's Records), widely acknowledged as the most important early Chinese history, contains the "basic annals" of five early Han-dynasty emperors. The annals trace the first century of Han rule (206 BC to ca. 100 BC) in a year-by-year account that focuses on imperial activities. In The Grand Scribe's Records, Ssu-ma Ch'ien revitalised the style of the annals he had written for previous rulers. Here are accounts of the peasant who founded the dynasty, Liu Pang, a man noted as much for his licentiousness as he was his ruthless political instinct, and of his cruel wife, Empress Lÿ, who murdered her chief rival for Liu Pang's affections in the most gruesome manner. The annals of two relatively undistinguished emperors follow. The volume concludes with Ssu-ma's depiction of perhaps the greatest ruler of the Han, Emperor Wu, told within the context of his delusive attempts to find a means to achieve immortality. When completed this translation will bring all 130 chapters of the Shih chi into English. Volumes 1 and 7 were published by Indiana University Press in 1994.

The Literati Purges
The Literati Purges

Author: Edward W. Wagner

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-03-17

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 168417189X

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A detailed study of the factional struggles and political purges that occurred in Yi Korea in 1498, 1504, and 1519. Also includes a description of the administrative structure of the early Yi dynasty government.