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  • by Constance A. Cook
    £33.49

    Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao outlines the evolution of musical performance in early China, first within and then ultimately away from the socio-religious context of ancestor worship. The focus of this study is on excavated texts; it is the first to use both bronze and bamboo narratives to show the evolution of a single ritual practice.

  • by Richard G. Wang
    £42.99

    In Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks, Richard Wang explores the key role played by elite Daoists in social and cultural life in Ming China, notably by mediating between local networks and the state through their clerical lineages-empire-wide networks channeling knowledge and resources-and by controlling central temples.

  • by David M. Robinson
    £35.49

    David M. Robinson explores how grand displays like the royal hunt, archery contests, and the imperial menagerie were presented in literature and art in the early Ming dynasty. He argues these spectacles were highly contested sites where emperors and court ministers staked competing claims about rulership and the role of the military in the polity.

  • - Southern Song Dynasty Poetry and the Problem of Literary History
    by Michael A. Fuller
    £39.49

    The dominant literary genre in Song dynasty China, shi poetry reflected profound changes occurring in Chinese culture from 960-1279. Michael Fuller traces the intertwining of shi poetry and Neo-Confucianism that led to the cultural synthesis of the last years of the Southern Song and set the pattern of Chinese society for the next six centuries.

  • - Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan
    by Hideaki Fujiki
    £33.49

    Examining the transnational film star system and the formations of historically important stars, Making Personas casts new light on Japanese modernity from the 1910s to 1930s. The book shows how film stardom began and evolved, looking at the production, representation, circulation, and reception of performers' images in film and other media.

  • - Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China
    by Anna M. Shields
    £33.49

    Friendships between writers of the mid-Tang era became famous through the many texts they wrote to and about one another. Anna M. Shields explores these texts to reveal the complex value the writers found in friendship-as a rewarding social practice, a rich literary topic, a way to negotiate literati identity, and a path toward self-understanding.

  • - Chinese Popular Religion in Villages and Cities
    by Wei-Ping Lin
    £27.49

    Through an exploration of contemporary Chinese popular religion from its cultural, social, and material perspectives, Wei-Ping Lin paints a broad picture of the dynamics of popular religion in Taiwan. Analyzing these aspects of religious practice in a unified framework, she traces their transformation as adherents move from villages to cities.

  • by Xiaoshan Yang
    £42.99

    The first book of its kind in any Western language, Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture brings into focus a cluster of issues that are central to the understanding of both the poet and his cultural milieu. Together, the chapters form a varied mosaic of Wang Anshi's work and its critical reception in the larger context of Song poetic culture.

  • - History and Ritual in Early Daoist Communities
    by Terry F. Kleeman
    £28.49 - 33.49

    Celestial Masters is the first book in any Western language devoted solely to the founding of Daoism. It traces the movement from the mid-second century CE through the sixth century, and provides a detailed analysis of ritual life within the movement, covering the roles of common believer or Daoist citizen, novice, and priest or libationer.

  • - The Daoist Quest for Deliverance in Medieval China
    by Franciscus Verellen
    £48.99

    This book examines the evolution of Daoist beliefs about human liability and redemption over eight centuries and outlines ritual procedures for rescuing an ill-starred destiny, focusing on the Daoist vocabulary of bondage and redemption, the changing meanings of sacrifice, and metaphoric conceptualizations bridging the visible and invisible realms.

  • - Intertextual Modes of Making Meaning in Early Medieval China
    by Wendy Swartz
    £33.49

    Early medieval writers in China understood and manipulated a shared intellectual lexicon to produce meaning. Wendy Swartz explores how these writers developed a distinctive mosaic of ways to participate in their cultural heritage by weaving textual strands from a shared and expanding store of literary resources into new patterns and configurations.

  • - Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms
    by Xiaofei Tian
    £33.49

    The third century CE-the Jian'an era or Three Kingdoms-holds double significance for the Chinese cultural tradition. Its writings laid the foundation of classical poetry and literary criticism. Its historical personages and events also inspired works of art throughout Chinese history. Xiaofei Tian examines the interface of these two nostalgias.

  • - Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination
    by Tamara T. Chin
    £33.49

    Tamara T. Chin explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance ("Silk Road") markets. Chin explains why rival political groups introduced new literary forms with which to represent these expanded markets.

  • - Manchu Storytelling and Cultural Hybridity in the Qing Dynasty
    by Elena Suet-Ying Chiu
    £33.49

    Bannermen Tales is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive study of zidishu-a popular storytelling genre created by the Manchus in early eighteenth-century Beijing. With original translations, musical score, and numerous illustrations of hand-copied and printed texts, this study opens a new window into Qing literature.

  • by William Wayne Farris
    £17.99

    W. Wayne Farris has developed the first systematic analysis of early Japanese population, the role of disease in economic development, and the impact of agricultural technology and practices. In doing so, he reinterprets the nature of ritsuryo institutions.

  • - A Study of the Buddhist Contribution to the Rise of Vernacular Fiction and Drama in China
    by Victor H. Mair
    £26.99

  • - Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China
    by Timothy Brook
    £30.49

    Timothy Brook studies three widely separated and economically dissimilar counties. He draws on rich data in monastic gazetteers to examine the patterns and social consequences of patronage.

  • - Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China
    by Suyoung Son
    £27.49

    Suyoung Son examines the widespread practice of self-publishing by writers in late imperial China, focusing on the relationships between manuscript tradition and print convention, peer patronage and popular fame, and gift exchange and commercial transactions in textual production and circulation.

  • by Nicolas Tackett
    £17.49 - 33.49

    Using the new tools of GIS and social network analysis, Nicolas Tackett shows that the great Tang aristocratic families were more successful than previously believed in adapting to social and economic changes in the seventh and eighth centuries. Tang political influence waned only after many of them were killed during the three decades after 880.

  • by Xiaoqiao Ling
    £39.99

    Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China highlights the central role played by the body in writers' memories during the Ming-Qing cataclysm. Sight, sound, taste, and touch configured ordinary experiences next to traumatic events. This embodied experience reveals literature's mission of remembrance as a moral endeavor in cultural continuity.

  • - Truth, Identity, and Images in Daoism
    by Poul Andersen
    £48.99

    Through research into Daoist ritual in history and as it survives today, Andersen shows that the concept of truth in Chinese Daoist philosophy and ritual posits being as a paradox anchored in the inexistent Way, and consists in seeking to be an exception to ordinary norms and rules of behavior which nonetheless engages what is common to us all.

  • - China's Orochen People and the Legacy of Qing Borderland Administration
    by Loretta E. Kim
    £48.99

    Ethnic Chrysalis is the first book in English to cover the early modern history of the Orochen, an ethnic group that has for centuries inhabited areas now belonging to the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China. Kim examines how the impact of political organization in one era can endure in a group's social and cultural values.

  • - Chinese Lyrics from the Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries
    by Stephen Owen
    £33.49

    "Song Lyric," ci, is one of the most loved forms of Chinese poetry, radically distinct from "Classical Poetry," shi. Stephen Owen examines song lyric's literary traditions, including its origins, major writers and collections, and development into a genre, while offering a new hypothesis on the relationship between song practice and written text.

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