Paul W. Kroll
Publisher:
Brill
Publication Date:
May 2018
Abstract:
The Tang dynasty, lasting from 618 to 907, was the high point of medieval Chinese history, featuring unprecedented achievements in governmental organization, economic and territorial expansion, literature, the arts, and religion. Many Tang practices continued, with various developments, to influence Chinese society for the next thousand years. For these and other reasons the Tang has been a key focus of Western sinologists. This volume presents English-language reprints of fifty-seven critical studies of the Tang, in the three general categories of political history, literature and cultural history, and religion. The articles and book chapters included here are important scholarly benchmarks that will serve as the starting-point for anyone interested in the study of medieval China.
Table of Contents:
Tang Emperors’ Accession Dates and Reign Titles (nianhao 年號)
General Introduction
Paul W. Kroll
History—Political, Intellectual, and Military
1 Wen Ta-ya 溫大雅: The First Recorder of T’ang History
Woodbridge Bingham
2 The Rise to Power of the T’ang Dynasty: A Reassessment
Howard J. Wechsler
3 The T’ang Imperial Family
Denis Twitchett
4 Canonical Scholarship
David McMullen
5 Neo-Confucianism and Neo-Legalism in T’ang Intellectual Life, 755–805
Edwin G. Pulleyblank
6 The Structure of T’ang Selection
P. A. Herbert
7 Decree Examinations in T’ang China
P. A. Herbert
8 The Bureaucratic Apparatus [of T’ang Historians]
Denis Twitchett
9 Bureaucracy and Cosmology: The Ritual Code of T’ang China
David McMullen
10 Wei Cheng’s Thought [esp. Regarding Government]
Howard J. Wechsler
11 Imperial Power and the Ruling Class [under Empress Wu]
Richard W. L. Guisso
12 The Chou Dynasty [of Empress Wu]
Richard W. L. Guisso
13 The Career of Yang Kuei-fei
Howard S. Levy
14 The Flight from the Capital and the Death of Precious Consort Yang
Paul W. Kroll
15 Foreign Policy
P. A. Herbert
16 The An Lu-shan Rebellion and the Origins of Chronic Militarism in Late T’ang China
Edwin G. Pulleyblank
Literature and Cultural History
17 T’ang Literati: A Composite Biography
Hans H. Frankel
18 Transparencies: Reading the T’ang Lyric
Stephen Owen
19 The Significance of the fu in the History of T’ang Poetry
Paul W. Kroll
20 An Offering to the Prince: Wang Bo’s Apology for Poetry
Ding Xiang Warner
21 Tamed Kite and Stranded Fish: Interference and Apology in Lu Chao-lin’s fu
Paul W. Kroll
22 A Re-evaluation of Chen Ziang’s 陳子昂 ‘Manifesto of a Poetic Reform’
Timothy Wai Keung Chan
23 On Li Po 李白
Elling O. Eide
24 Li Po’s Letters in Pursuit of Political Patronage
Victor H. Mair
25 Li Bai’s ‘Rhapsody on the Hall of Light’: A Singular Vision of Cosmic Order
Nicholas Morrow Williams
26 Tu Fu 杜甫
Stephen Owen
27 Tu Fu’s Social Conscience: Compassion and Topicality in his Poetry
Eva Shan Chou
28 Poems in Their Place: Collections and Canons in Early Chinese Literature
Pauline Yu
29 Heyue yingling ji 河嶽英靈集 and the Attributes of Tang Verse
Paul W. Kroll
30 The Formation of the T’ang Estate Poem
Stephen Owen
31 Lexical Landscapes and Textual Mountains in the High T’ang
Paul W. Kroll
32 Historical and Literary Theory in the Mid-Eighth Century
David McMullen
33 The Manuscript Legacy of the Tang: The Case of Literature
Stephen Owen
34 Literary Collections in Tang Dynasty China
Christopher M. B. Nugent
35 A Study of the Jinglong wenguan ji 景龍文館記
Jia Jinhua
36 The Old-Style fu of Han Yu 韓愈
David R. Knechtges
37 Another Go at the Mao Ying chuan 毛穎傳
Elling O. Eide
38 The Old Men [of the Early Ninth Century]
Stephen Owen
39 The Inscription of Emotion in Mid-Tang Collegial Letters
Anna M. Shields
40 Yüan Chen 元稹 and ‘The Story of Ying-ying’ 鶯鶯傳
James Robert Hightower
41 Nostalgia and History in Mid-Ninth-Century Verse: Cheng Yü’s Poem on ‘The Chin-yang Gate’
Paul W. Kroll
42 Remembering Kaiyuan and Tianbao: The Construction of Mosaic Memory in Medieval Historical Miscellanies
Manling Luo
43 The Dancing Horses of T’ang
Paul W. Kroll
44 Falconry in T’ang Times
Edward H. Schafer
45 Public Values in Calligraphy and Orthography in the Tang Dynasty
Amy McNair
Religion
46 The Role of Buddhist Monasteries in T’ang Society
Kenneth K. S. Ch’en
47 Buddhism and Education in T’ang Times
Erik Zürcher
48 Imperial Patronage in the Formation of T’ang Buddhism
Stanley Weinstein
49 Stūpa, Sūtra, Śarīra in China, c. 656–706 CE
T. H. Barrett
50 The Birth of a Patriarch: The Biography of Hui-neng
Philip B. Yampolsky
51 Metropolitan Chan
John R. McRae
52 Time after Time: Taoist Apocalyptic History and the Founding of the T’ang Dynasty
Stephen R. Bokenkamp
53 Taoist Ordination Ranks in the Tunhuang Manuscripts
Kristofer M. Schipper
54 Taoism in the T’ien-pao Era, 742–56
T. H. Barrett
55 Li Po’s Transcendent Diction
Paul W. Kroll
56 Immortality Can be Studied
Jan De Meyer
57 The Worshippers of Mount Hua
Glen Dudbridge
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