Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook

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Wendy Swartz, Robert Campany, Yang Lu, Jessey Choo
Columbia University Press, 2013年5月21日 - 832 頁
This innovative sourcebook builds a dynamic understanding of China's early medieval period (220-589) through an original selection and arrangement of literary, historical, religious, and critical texts. A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw the longest stretch of political fragmentation in China's imperial history, resulting in new ethnic configurations, the rise of powerful clans, and a pervasive divide between north and south.

Deploying thematic categories, the editors sketch the period in a novel way for students and, by featuring many texts translated into English for the first time, recast the era for specialists. Thematic topics include regional definitions and tensions, governing mechanisms and social reality, ideas of self and other, relations with the unseen world, everyday life, and cultural concepts. Within each section, the editors and translators introduce the selected texts and provide critical commentary on their historical significance, along with suggestions for further reading and research.
 

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Introduction
1
Part I The North and the South by Jessey J C Choo
11
1 Return to the North? The Debate on Moving the Capital Back to Luoyang by Jessey J C Choo
17
Accounts from the Wei shu and the Song shu by Albert E Dien
32
The Southern Treatments of Northern Cultures by Jessey J C Choo
60
4 Literary Imagination of the North and South by Ping Wang
77
Part II Governing Mechanisms and Social Reality by Yang Lu
89
Evidence from Changsha by Yang Lu
95
Huangfu Mis Accounts of HighMinded Men by Alan Berkowitz
333
Selections from Liu Shaos Treatise on Personality and Liu Yiqings Recent Anecdotes from the Talk of the Ages by Jack W Chen
350
22 The Literary Community at the Court of the Liang Crown Prince by Ping Wang
370
Tao Yuanmings Biography of the Master of Five Willows and Yuan Cans Biography of the Master of Wonderful Virtue by Wendy Swartz
382
Three Selections from Jiang Yans Prose and Verse by Paul W Kroll
388
Three Selections from Jiang Yans Prose and Verse by Paul W Kroll
405
Part V Everyday Life by Jessey J C Choo and Albert E Dien
429
Shu Xis Rhapsody on Pasta by David R Knechtges
447

The Case of Qiao Zhou by J Michael Farmer
108
Xiahou Xuans Response to an Inquiry by Sima Yi by Timothy M Davis
125
Liu Zishangs Petition on Closing Off Mountains and Lakes and Yang Xis Discussion on Abolishing Old Regulations Regarding Mountains and Marsh...
147
The Case of Liu Hui in the Wei shu by Jender Lee
156
Shen Yues Impeaching Wang Yuan by David R Knechtges
166
The Inscriptional Evidence from Turfan by Huaiyu Chen
176
Part III Cultural Capital by Wendy Swartz
195
Xi Kangs Sound Is Without Sadness or Joy by Robert Ashmore
201
The Writings of Sun Chuo by Paul W Kroll
230
Liu Xiaochuos Becoming the NumberOne Person for the NumberOne Position by Ping Wang
245
15 Six Poems from a Liang Dynasty Princely Court by Xiaofei Tian
256
16 Pei Ziyes Discourse on Insect Carving by Jack W Chen
267
Zhi Yus Discourse on Literary Compositions Divided by Genre by Wendy Swartz
274
18 Zhong Rongs Preface to Grades of the Poets by Stephen Owen
287
Xiao Yis Master of the Golden Tower and Ruan Xiaoxus Preface to Seven Records by Xiaofei Tian
307
Part IV Imaging Self and Other by Wendy Swartz
325
27 The Epitaph of a ThirdCentury Wet Nurse Xu Yi by Jender Lee
458
Selections from Record of the Year and Seasons of JingChu by Ian Chapman
468
The Family Instructions of Mr Yan by Albert E Dien
494
The Petition Submitted by Lady née Yu by Jessey J C Choo
511
The Case of Shi Chong by David R Knechtges
530
Part VI Relations with the Unseen World by Robert Ford Campany
539
32 Biographies of Eight Autocremators and Huijiaos Critical Evaluation by James A Benn
543
33 Divine Instructions for an Official by Stephen R Bokenkamp
561
34 Tales of Strange Events by Robert Ford Campany
576
35 Texts for Stabilizing Tombs by Timothy M Davis
592
36 Reciting Scriptures to Move the Spirits by Clarke Hudson
613
37 Confucian Views of the Supernatural by Keith N Knapp
640
38 Encounters in Mountains by Gil Raz
652
List of Contributors
683
Index
689
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Wendy Swartz is an associate professor of Chinese literature at Rutgers University. She is the author of Reading Tao Yuanming: Shifting Paradigms of Historical Reception (427-1900) and articles on early medieval Chinese poetry and classical literary thought and criticism.



Robert Ford Campany is a professor of Asian studies and religion at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China and three other books and numerous articles on the history of Chinese religions and the comparative study of religion.



Yang Lu has taught at Princeton University and the University of Kansas and is a professor of Chinese history at Peking University. He specializes in the history of medieval China and of Buddhism. His publications include works on the cultural and political history of the Tang dynasty, Buddhist scholasticism in China, and Chinese historiography.



Jessey J. C. Choo is an assistant professor at Rutgers University and specializes in the cultural history of medieval China. She is currently finishing a book-length study on memory, identity, and the transformation of mortuary and commemorative rituals in medieval China.

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