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050 00 $aDS747.42$b.C84 2001
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245 00 $aCulture and power in the reconstitution of the Chinese realm, 200-600 /$cScott Pearce, Audrey Spiro, and Patricia Ebrey, editors.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Asia Center :$bDistributed by Harvard University Press,$c2001.
300 $axvi, 359 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aHarvard East Asian monographs ;$v200
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tPreface /$rPatricia Ebrey --$tIntroduction /$rScott Pearce, Audrey Spiro and Patricia Ebrey --$g1.$tJiankang and the Commercial Empire of the Southern Dynasties: Change and Continuity in Medieval Chinese Economic History /$rShufen Liu --$g2.$tTo the Manner Born? Nature and Nurture in Early Medieval Chinese Literary Thought /$rRobert Joe Cutter --$g3.$tA Dialogue with the Ancients: Tao Qian's Interrogation of Confucius /$rDonald Holzman --$g4.$tCivil Service Examinations: Evidence from the Northwest /$rAlbert Dien --$g5.$tHybrid Vigor: Memory, Mimesis, and the Matching of Meanings in Fifth-Century Buddhist Art /$rAudrey Spiro --$g6.$tForm and Matter: Archaizing Reform in Sixth-Century China /$rScott Pearce --$g7.$tLu Xiujing, Buddhism, and the First Daoist Canon /$rStephen Bokenkamp --$g8.$tCulling the Weeds and Selecting Prime Blossoms: The Anthology in Early Medieval China /$rDavid R. Knechtges.
520 1 $a"China's early medieval age - the time between the fall of the Han in A.D. 220 and the Sui's reunification of the realm in 589 - receives short shrift in most accounts of Chinese history, which typically characterize it in negative fashion as an age of disorder and dislocation, ethnic strife and bloody court battles, an era whose only notable achievement was the introduction of Buddhism.
520 8 $aBut despite the violence and volatility, these centuries were a time of extraordinary cultural flowering, which reshaped and deeply enriched Chinese civilization. Culture and cultural change are the primary focuses of the eight essays in this volume.".
520 8 $a"The authors of these essays address the growth of cities, literary theory, the civil service examinations, Buddhist art, governmental reform, Daoism, and literary anthologies.
520 8 $aAlthough they take diverse viewpoints as they seek to chart the changes that unfolded across the early medieval age, their work is bound together by several overarching themes: evolving notions of the nature of the center and its relationship to the periphery, of boundaries between groups and regions: ideas of order and the re-creation of order; and views on connections to the past and the significance of historical inheritance.
520 8 $aThese are issues that were central to the work of reconstituting a Chinese realm that was both culturally and politically coherent."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aChina$xCivilization.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023992
651 0 $aChina$xHistory$y220-589.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024047
651 4 $aChina$xHistory$y220-589.
651 4 $aChina$xCivilization$y221 B.C.-960 A.D.
700 1 $aPearce, Scott.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85294039
700 1 $aSpiro, Audrey G.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88282705
700 1 $aEbrey, Patricia Buckley,$d1947-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80067509
830 0 $aHarvard East Asian monographs ;$v200.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42012381
852 00 $beal$hDS747.42$i.C84 2001