Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture - The Record of a Dusty Table

Xiaofei Tian is professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Possession & Loss

2. "Who the Master Is, No One Knows"

3. Lost Homesteads: Returning to Tao

4. Food, Death, & Narration

5. Becoming a Vessel

6. Hard Evidence: Reading a Stone

Conclusion

Notes

Chinese Glossary

Editions of Tao Yuanming's Collection

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the author

Xiaofei Tian

Summary

Looks at how changes made when medieval Chinese manuscripts were copied influenced a writer's literary reputation

Product details

• Authors: Xiaofei Tian
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.03.2013
• EAN: 9780295991344
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99134-4
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: China Program Book; China Program Books; China Program Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories