Considering the End: Mortality in Early Medieval Chinese Poetic Representation

This book focuses on the representation of human mortality in medieval Chinese literature. This theme is observed and reconstructed through analysis of the work of eminent writers of the period, texts that have never been examined from an eschatological perspective.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Timothy Wai Keung Chan, Ph.D. (1999) in Chinese, University of Colorado, Boulder, is Associate Professor of Chinese at Hong Kong Baptist University. He publishes widely in Chinese and in English on early medieval Chinese literature, intellectual history, and early Daoism.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Timothy Wai Keung Chan
• Verlag: Brill
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 11.05.2012
• EAN: 9789004222090
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22209-0
• Seiten: 252
• Abmessung: 164 mm x 251 mm x 20 mm
• Gewicht: 542 g
• Serie: Sinica Leidensia
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Sonstige Sprachen / Sonstige Literaturen; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien