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3 produkter
Literary History in and beyond China
Reading Text and World
Av Sarah M. Allen, Jack W. Chen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
501 kr
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Literary History in and beyond China: Reading Text and World explores the idea of literary history across the long span of the Chinese tradition. Although much scholarship on Chinese literature may be characterized as doing the work of literary history, there has been little theoretical engagement …
Shifting Stories
History, Gossip, and Lore in Narratives from Tang Dynasty China
Inbunden, 2014
402 kr
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Shifting Stories explores the tale literature of eighth- and ninth-century China to show how the written tales we have today grew out of a fluid culture of hearsay that circulated within elite society. Sarah M. Allen focuses on two main types of tales, those based in gossip about recognizable …
Traditions of Exemplary Transcendents by Liu Xiang (79–8 BCE)
Av Robert Ford Campany, Sarah M. Allen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
572 kr
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By the middle of the third century BCE, some people in China had begun to imagine it possible to employ esoteric methods to refashion themselves into posthuman beings with spirit-like capabilities, enhanced bodies, and greatly extended lifespans. Such beings were termed transcendents (xian 仙). …
