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The Literary Culture of the Liang (502–557)

Xiaofei Tian

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$49.50 • £43.95 • €45.95

ISBN 9780674026025

Publication Date: 12/30/2007

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450 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

Harvard University Asia Center > Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series

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Note on Sources
Introduction
1. The Rule of Emperor Wu
2. Mapping the Cultural World (I): Managing Texts
3. Mapping the Cultural World (II): Contextualizing Taste
4. The Pleasure of the Superfluous: Palace Style Poetry and Resistance to Canonization
5. Illusion and Illumination: A New Poetics of Seeing
6. “Suppression of the Light”: Xiao Gang, Prince and Poet
7. The Cultural Construction of the North and South
8. Parting Ways
Epilogue: The Aftermath and the Romanticization of the Liang
Works Cited
Index

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