The Age of Eternal Brilliance

The Age of Eternal Brilliance

Author: Richard Mather

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-11-28

Total Pages: 549

ISBN-13: 9004531777

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The full original texts, Professor Richard Mather’s full annotated translations, and brief biographies of these three classical poets, who had such a profound impact upon the immediately succeeding centuries. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004120594).


The Age of Eternal Brilliance: Shen Yüeh (441-513)

The Age of Eternal Brilliance: Shen Yüeh (441-513)

Author: Richard B. Mather

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9789004135796

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This volume presents the nearly complete oeuvre of ShenYüeh, Hsieh T'iao, and Wang Jung, i.e. the full original texts, Professor Richard Mather's full annotated translations, and brief biographies of these three classical poets, who all had such a profound impact on succeeding centuries. The reader will here find first-hand reactions and ruminations by highly sensitive and articulate participants in the tumultuous events and intellectual currents of an age that was definitely more than just a chaotic transition between the Han and the T'ang dynasties. With index. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004120594).


The Age of Eternal Brilliance

The Age of Eternal Brilliance

Author: Richard Mather

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-11-28

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 9004531769

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The full original texts, Professor Richard Mather’s full annotated translations, and brief biographies of these three classical poets, who had such a profound impact upon the immediately succeeding centuries. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004120594).


The Age of Eternal Brilliance

The Age of Eternal Brilliance

Author: Richard B. Mather

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13:

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This volume presents the nearly complete oeuvre of ShenY eh, Hsieh T'iao, and Wang Jung, i.e. the full original texts, Professor Richard Mather's full annotated translations, and brief biographies of these three classical poets, who all had such a profound impact on succeeding centuries. The reader will here find first-hand reactions and ruminations by highly sensitive and articulate participants in the tumultuous events and intellectual currents of an age that was definitely more than just a chaotic transition between the Han and the T'ang dynasties. With index.


Written at Imperial Command

Written at Imperial Command

Author: Fusheng Wu

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0791478726

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This is the first book-length study of panegyric poetry—yingzhao shi or poetry presented to imperial rulers—in the Chinese tradition. Examining poems presented during the Wei-Jin Nanbeichao, or early medieval period (220–619), Fusheng Wu provides a thorough exploration of the sociopolitical background against which these poems were written and a close analysis of the formal conventions of the poems. By reconstructing the human drama behind the composition of these poems, Wu shows that writing under imperial command could be a matter of grave consequence. The poets' work could determine the rise and fall of careers, or even cost lives. While panegyric poetry has been largely dismissed as perfunctory and insincere, such poems reveal much about the relations between monarchs and the intellectuals they patronized and also compels us to reexamine the canonical Chinese notion of poetic production as personal, spontaneous expression.


Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol. 2)

Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol. 2)

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-10-10

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13: 9004201645

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At last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E. Alphabetically organized, it contains no less than 1095 entries on major and minor writers, literary forms and "schools," and important Chinese literary terms. In addition to providing authoritative information about each subject, the compilers have taken meticulous care to include detailed, up-to-date bibliographies and source information. The reader will find it a treasure-trove of historical accounts, especially when browsing through the biographies of authors. Indispensable for scholars and students of pre-modern Chinese literature, history, and thought. Part Two contains S to Xi.


Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol. 3 & 4)

Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol. 3 & 4)

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-09-18

Total Pages: 1036

ISBN-13: 9004271856

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At last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E. Alphabetically organized, it contains no less than 1095 entries on major and minor writers, literary forms and "schools," and important Chinese literary terms. In addition to providing authoritative information about each subject, the compilers have taken meticulous care to include detailed, up-to-date bibliographies and source information. The reader will find it a treasure-trove of historical accounts, especially when browsing through the biographies of authors. Indispensable for scholars and students of pre-modern Chinese literature, history, and thought. Part Three contains Xia - Y. Part Four contains the Z and an extensive index to the four volumes.


Signs from the Unseen Realm

Signs from the Unseen Realm

Author: Robert Ford Campany

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2012-05-17

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0824865715

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In early medieval China hundreds of Buddhist miracle texts were circulated, inaugurating a trend that would continue for centuries. Each tale recounted extraordinary events involving Chinese persons and places—events seen as verifying claims made in Buddhist scriptures, demonstrating the reality of karmic retribution, or confirming the efficacy of Buddhist devotional practices. Robert Ford Campany, one of North America’s preeminent scholars of Chinese religion, presents in this volume the first complete, annotated translation, with in-depth commentary, of the largest extant collection of miracle tales from the early medieval period, Wang Yan’s Records of Signs from the Unseen Realm, compiled around 490 C.E. In addition to the translation, Campany provides a substantial study of the text and its author in their historical and religious settings. He shows how these lively tales helped integrate Buddhism into Chinese society at the same time that they served as platforms for religious contestation and persuasion. Campany offers a nuanced, clear methodological discussion of how such narratives, being products of social memory, may be read as valuable evidence for the history of religion and culture. Readers interested in Buddhism; historians of Chinese religions, culture, society, and literature; scholars of comparative religion: All will find Signs from the Unseen Realm a stimulating and rich contribution to scholarship.