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Books in the Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series series

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  • - Classics and State Activism in Imperial China
    by Jaeyoon Song
    £39.49

    In Northern Song China, reform-minded statesmen sought to remove the tension between the Confucian Classics and statist ideals of "big government." Jaeyoon Song illuminates the interplay between classics, thinkers, and government in statist reform, and explains why the uneasy marriage of classics and state activism had to fail in imperial China.

  • - History, Gossip, and Lore in Narratives from Tang Dynasty China
    by Sarah M. Allen
    £27.49

    Sarah M. Allen explores the tale literature of eighth- and ninth-century China to show how written tales of the Tang canon we know today grew out of a fluid culture of hearsay in elite society. The book focuses on two main types of tales, those based in gossip about recognizable public figures and those developed out of lore concerning the occult.

  • by Wai-yee Li
    £45.99

    Wai-yee Li examines the discursive space of women in seventeenth-century China. Using texts written by women or by men writing in a feminine voice, as well as writings that turn women into signifiers of lamentation or nostalgia, Li probes the emotional and psychological turmoil of the Ming-Qing transition and subsequent moments of national trauma.

  • - Continuity and Innovation in the Chinese Lyric Tradition, 1900-1937
    by Shengqing Wu
    £33.49

    After the 1911 fall of the Qing dynasty, many declared the classical Chinese poetic tradition dead. In Modern Archaics, Shengqing Wu draws on extensive archival research into the poetry collections and literary journals of two generations of writers to challenge this claim and demonstrate the continuing significance of the classical form.

  • - The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China
    by Ronald C. Egan
    £39.49

    An exception to the rule that the first-rank poets in premodern China were men, the woman poet Li Qingzhao (1084-1150s) occupies a crucial place in Chinese literature. Ronald C. Egan challenges conventional thinking about Li, examining how critics tried to accommodate her to cultural norms from late imperial times into the twentieth century.

  • - The Cultural Construction of an Ancient Chinese Kingdom
    by Olivia Milburn
    £27.49

    The rapid rise and fall of the southern kingdom of Wu inspired many memorials in the former capital city of Suzhou, including the building of temples, shrines, and monuments. Analyzing the history of Wu as recorded in ancient Chinese texts and literature, Olivia Milburn illuminates the cultural endurance of this powerful but short-lived kingdom.

  • 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.

  • - 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.

  • - 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.

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