This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century BCE through a conceptual framework centered on textual production and transmission. It focuses on recuperating historical perspectives for the period it surveys, and attempts to draw connections between the past and present.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Contributor List
- Timeline of Chinese Dynasties
- SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION
- 1. Key Concepts of "Literature" (Stephen Owen)
- 2. Periodization and Major Inflection Points (Stephen Owen)
- SECTION TWO: BASICS OF LITERACY
- I. Technology and Media
- Editor's Introduction (Xiaofei Tian)
- 3. The Chinese Writing System (Imre Galambos)
- 4. Literary Media: Writing and Orality (Christopher M. B. Nugent)
- 5. Manuscript Culture (Christopher M. B. Nugent)
- 6. The Relationship of Calligraphy and Painting to Literature (Ronald Egan)
- II. Institutions of Literary Culture
- Editor's Introduction (Xiaofei Tian)
- 7. Education and the Examination System (Rebecca Doran)
- 8. Text and Commentary: The Early Tradition (Michael Puett)
- 9. Text and Commentary in the Medieval Period (Yu-yu Cheng)
- 10. Literary Learning: Encyclopedias and Epitomes (Xiaofei Tian)
- 11. Libraries, Book Catalogues, Lost Writings (Glen Dudbridge)
- SECTION THREE: LITERARY PRODUCTION
- I. Traditional Genre Spectrum
- Editor's Introduction (Wai-yee Li)
- 12. Classics (David Schaberg)
- 13. Histories (Stephen Durrant)
- 14. Masters (Wiebke Denecke)
- 15. Collections (Xiaofei Tian)
- II. Modern Perspectives on Genre
- Editor's Introduction (Wai-yee Li)
- 16. "Chinese Poetry" (Paul Rouzer)
- 17. Elite versus Popular Literature (Wilt Idema)
- 18. Narrative Genres (Sarah Allen)
- III. Collecting, Editing, Transmitting
- Editor's Introduction (Xiaofei Tian)
- 19. Pre-Tang Anthologies and Anthologization (David R. Knechtges)
- 20. Anthologies in the Tang (Paul W. Kroll)
- 21. The Song Reception of Earlier Literature (Stephen Owen)
- 22. Textual Transmission of Earlier Literature during the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties (Wai-yee Li)
- IV. Literature and Metaliterature
- Editor's Introduction (Wiebke Denecke)
- 23. Defenses of Literature/Literary Thought/Poetics (Paul Rouzer)
- 24. Concepts of Authorship (Wai-yee Li)
- 25. Tradition Formation: Beginnings to Eastern Han (Stephen Durrant)
- 26. Classicisms in Chinese Literary Culture: Six Dynasties through Tang (Anna Shields)
- SECTION FOUR: MOMENTS, SITES, FIGURES
- Editor's Introduction (Wai-yee Li)
- 27. Moments (Paula Varsano)
- 28. Sites I (Jack Chen)
- 29. Sites II (Wendy Swartz)
- 30. Figures (Wai-yee Li)
- SECTION FIVE: EARLY AND MEDIEVAL CHINA AND THE WORLD
- Editor's Introduction (Wiebke Denecke)
- 31. Colonization, Sinicization, and the Multigraphic Northwest (Tamara T. Chin)
- 32. Translation (Daniel Boucher)
- 33. Shared Literary Heritage in the Sinographic Sphere (Wiebke Denecke, with contributions by Nam Nguyen)
- 34. Sino-Korean Literature (Sim Kyung-ho and Peter Kornicki)
- 35. Early Sino-Japanese Literature (Wiebke Denecke)
- 36. Sino-Vietnamese Literature (Peter Kornicki)