Editors:
Wendy Swartz, Robert Ford Campany, Yang Lu, and Jessey J. C. Choo
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
2013
Table of Contents:
Chronological Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on the
Translations
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. The North
and the South by Jessey J. C. Choo
1. Return to the North? The Debate on
Moving the Capital Back to Luoyang, by Jessey J. C. Choo
2. The
Disputation at Pengcheng: Accounts from the Wei shu and the Song shu, by Albert
E. Dien
3. Between Imitation and Mockery: The Southern Treatments of
Northern Cultures, by Jessey J. C. Choo
4. Literary Imagination of the
North and South, by Ping Wang
Part II. Governing Mechanisms and Social
Reality by Yang Lu
5. Managing Locality in Early Medieval China: Evidence
from Changsha, by Yang Lu
6. Classical Scholarship in the Shu Region: The
Case of Qiao Zhou, by J. Michael Farmer
7. Ranking Men and Assessing
Talent: Xiahou Xuan’s Response to an Inquiry by Sima Yi, by Timothy M.
Davis
8. On Land and Wealth: Liu Zishang’s “Petition on Closing Off
Mountains and Lakes” and Yang Xi’s “Discussion on Abolishing Old Regulations
Regarding Mountains and Marshes”, by Charles Holcombe
9. Crime and
Punishment: The Case of Liu Hui in the Wei shu, by Jen-der Lee
10.
Marriage and Social Status: Shen Yue’s “Impeaching Wang Yuan” , by David R.
Knechtges
11. Religion and Society on the Silk Road: The Inscriptional
Evidence from Turfan, by Huaiyu Chen
Part III. Cultural Capital by Wendy
Swartz
12. The Art of Discourse: Xi Kang’s “Sound Is Without Sadness or
Joy”, by Robert Ashmore
13. Poetry on the Mysterious: The Writings of Sun
Chuo, by Paul W. Kroll
14. The Art of Poetry Writing: Liu Xiaochuo’s
“Becoming the Number-One Person for the Number-One Position”, by Ping
Wang
15. Six Poems from a Liang Dynasty Princely Court, by Xiaofei
Tian
16. Pei Ziye’s “Discourse on Insect Carving”, by Jack W.
Chen
17. Classifying the Literary Tradition: Zhi Yu’s “Discourse on
Literary Compositions Divided by Genre”, by Wendy Swartz
18. Zhong Rong’s
Preface to Grades of the Poets, by Stephen Owen
19. Book Collecting and
Cataloging in the Age of Manuscript Culture: Xiao Yi’s Master of the Golden
Tower and Ruan Xiaoxu’s Preface to Seven Records, by Xiaofei Tian
Part
IV. Imaging Self and Other by Wendy Swartz
20. Biographies of Recluses:
Huangfu Mi’s Accounts of High-Minded Men, by Alan Berkowitz
21.
Classifications of People and Conduct: Selections from Liu Shao’s Treatise on
Personality and Liu Yiqing’s Recent Anecdotes from the Talk of the Ages, by Jack
W. Chen
22. The Literary Community at the Court of the Liang Crown
Prince, by Ping Wang
23. Self-Narration: Tao Yuanming’s “Biography of the
Master of Five Willows” and Yuan Can’s “Biography of the Master of Wonderful
Virtue”, by Wendy Swartz
24. On Political and Personal Fate: Three
Selections from Jiang Yan’s Prose and Verse, by Paul W. Kroll
25. The
Shadow Image in the Cave: Discourse on Icons, by Eugene Wang
Part V.
Everyday Life by Jessey J. C. Choo and Albert E. Dien
26. Dietary Habits:
Shu Xi’s “Rhapsody on Pasta”, by David R. Knechtges
27. The Epitaph of a
Third-Century Wet Nurse, Xu Yi, by Jen-der Lee
28. Festival and Ritual
Calendar: Selections from Record of the Year and Seasons of Jing-Chu, by Ian
Chapman
29. Custom and Society: The Family Instructions of Mr. Yan, by
Albert E. Dien
30. Adoption and Motherhood: “The Petition Submitted by
Lady [née] Yu”, by Jessey J. C. Choo
31. Estate Culture in Early Medieval
China: The Case of Shi Chong, by David R. Knechtges
Part VI. Relations
with the Unseen World by Robert Ford Campany
32. Biographies of Eight
Autocremators and Huijiao’s “Critical Evaluation”, by James A. Benn
33.
Divine Instructions for an Official, by Stephen R. Bokenkamp
34. Tales of
Strange Events, by Robert Ford Campany
35. Texts for Stabilizing Tombs,
by Timothy M. Davis
36. Reciting Scriptures to Move the Spirits, by
Clarke Hudson
37. Confucian Views of the Supernatural, by Keith N.
Knapp
38. Encounters in Mountains, by Gil Raz
List of
Contributors
No comments:
Post a Comment