By Alan K. L. Chan,Yuet-Keung Lo
Covering a time of significant highbrow ferment and nice impression on what was once to return, this booklet explores the literary and hermeneutic global of early medieval China. as well as profound political adjustments, the autumn of the Han dynasty allowed new currents in aesthetics, literature, interpretation, ethics, and faith to emerge in the course of the Wei-Jin Nanbeichao interval. The participants to this quantity current advancements in literature and interpretation in this period from a number of methodological views, usually highlighting matters hitherto unremarked in Western or maybe chinese language and eastern scholarship. those comprise the increase of latest literary and inventive values because the Han declined, altering styles of patronage that helped reshape literary tastes and genres, and new advancements in literary feedback. The spiritual alterations of the interval are printed within the literary self-presentation of non secular seekers, the impact of Daoism on motifs in poetry, and Buddhist impacts on either poetry and historiography. conventional chinese language literary figures, comparable to the fox and the ghost, obtain clean research approximately their specific illustration in this period.
“...Chan and Lo have deeply enriched our knowing of early medieval China (220–589 CE).” — Journal of chinese language Religions
Alan ok. L. Chan is Professor of Philosophy on the Nanyang Technological collage, Singapore. His books contain Two Visions of how: A research of the Wang Pi and the Ho-shang Kung Commentaries on the Lao-tzu, additionally released through SUNY Press; Filial Piety in chinese language suggestion and History; and Mencius: Contexts and Interpretations.
Yuet-Keung Lo is affiliate Professor of chinese language reports on the nationwide college of Singapore. jointly they've got coedited Philosophy and faith in Early Medieval China, additionally released by way of SUNY Press.
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