A history of Chinese letters and epistolary culture /
A history of Chinese letters and epistolary culture /
edited by Antje Richter.
- 1 online resource (xx, 978 pages)
- Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section Four, China ; 31 .
- Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China 31. Brill's Companions to Asian Studies Online I, ISBN: 9789004389212. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: The Study of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture / 1 Reconstructing the Postal Relay System of the Han Period / 2 Letters as Calligraphy Exemplars: The Long and Eventful Life of Yan Zhenqing’s (709–785) Imperial Commissioner Liu Letter / 3 Chinese Decorated Letter Papers / 4 Material and Symbolic Economies: Letters and Gifts in Early Medieval China / 5 Letters in the Wen xuan / 6 Between Letter and Testament: Letters of Familial Admonition in Han and Six Dynasties China / 7 The Space of Separation: The Early Medieval Tradition of Four-Syllable “Presentation and Response” Poetry / 8 Letters and Memorials in the Early Third Century: The Case of Cao Zhi / 9 Liu Xie’s Institutional Mind: Letters, Administrative Documents, and Political Imagination in Fifth- and Sixth-Century China / 10 Bureaucratic Influences on Letters in Middle Period China: Observations from Manuscript Letters and Literati Discourse / 11 Private Letter Manuscripts from Early Imperial China / 12 Su Shi’s Informal Letters in Literature and Life / 13 The Letter as Artifact of Sentiment and Legal Evidence / 14 Infinite Variations of Writing and Desire: Love Letters in China and Europe / 15 Writing from Revolution’s Debris: Shen Congwen’s Family Letters in the Mao Era / 16 Captured in Words: Functions and Limits of Autobiographical Expression in Early Chinese Epistolary Literature / 17 Civil Examinations and Cover Letters in the Mid-Tang: Dugu Yu’s (776–815) “Letter Submitted to Attendant Gentleman Quan of the Ministry of Rites” / 18 The Inscription of Emotion in Mid-Tang Collegial Letters / 19 Halves and Holes: Collections, Networks, and Epistolary Practices of Chan Monks / 20 Letters as Windows on Ming-Qing Women’s Literary Culture / 21 Epistolary Networks and Practice in the Early Qing: The Letters Written to Yan Guangmin / 22 Aid and Comfort: Lu Zhaolin’s Letters / 23 She Association Circulars from Dunhuang / 24 Between Writing and Publishing Letters: Publishing a Letter about Book Proprietorship / 25 Opinions Going Public: Letters to the Editors in China’s Earliest Modern Newspapers / Scholarship on Chinese Epistolary Literature and Culture: A Select Bibliography -- Index. Antje Richter -- Y. Edmund Lien -- Amy McNair -- Suzanne E. Wright -- Xiaofei Tian -- David R. Knechtges -- Antje Richter -- Zeb Raft -- Robert Joe Cutter -- Pablo Ariel Blitstein -- Lik Hang Tsui -- Enno Giele -- Ronald Egan -- Janet Theiss -- Bonnie S. McDougall -- Jie Li -- Matthew Wells -- Alexei Ditter -- Anna M. Shields -- Natasha Heller -- Ellen Widmer -- David Pattinson -- Paul W. Kroll -- Imre Galambos -- Suyoung Son -- Natascha Gentz --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture is the first publication, in any language, that is dedicated to the study of Chinese epistolary literature and culture in its entirety, from the early empire to the twentieth century. The volume includes twenty-five essays dedicated to a broad spectrum of topics from postal transmission to letter calligraphy, epistolary networks to genre questions. It introduces dozens of letters, often the first translations into English, and thus makes epistolary history palpable in all its vitality and diversity: letters written by men and women from all walks of life to friends and lovers, princes and kings, scholars and monks, seniors and juniors, family members and neighbors, potential patrons, newspaper editors, and many more. With contributions by: Pablo Ariel Blitstein, R. Joe Cutter, Alexei Ditter, Ronald Egan, Imre Galambos, Natascha Gentz, Enno Giele, Natasha Heller, David R. Knechtges, Paul W. Kroll, Jie Li, Y. Edmund Lien, Bonnie S. McDougall, Amy McNair, David Pattinson, Zeb Raft, Antje Richter, Anna M. Shields, Suyoung Son, Janet Theiss, Xiaofei Tian, Lik Hang Tsui, Matthew Wells, Ellen Widmer, and Suzanne E. Wright.
9789004292123
10.1163/9789004292123 DOI
2015003080
Chinese letters--History and criticism.
Letter writing, Chinese.
Chinese letters.
Letter writing, Chinese.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PL2400 / .H57 2015
895.16/009
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: The Study of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture / 1 Reconstructing the Postal Relay System of the Han Period / 2 Letters as Calligraphy Exemplars: The Long and Eventful Life of Yan Zhenqing’s (709–785) Imperial Commissioner Liu Letter / 3 Chinese Decorated Letter Papers / 4 Material and Symbolic Economies: Letters and Gifts in Early Medieval China / 5 Letters in the Wen xuan / 6 Between Letter and Testament: Letters of Familial Admonition in Han and Six Dynasties China / 7 The Space of Separation: The Early Medieval Tradition of Four-Syllable “Presentation and Response” Poetry / 8 Letters and Memorials in the Early Third Century: The Case of Cao Zhi / 9 Liu Xie’s Institutional Mind: Letters, Administrative Documents, and Political Imagination in Fifth- and Sixth-Century China / 10 Bureaucratic Influences on Letters in Middle Period China: Observations from Manuscript Letters and Literati Discourse / 11 Private Letter Manuscripts from Early Imperial China / 12 Su Shi’s Informal Letters in Literature and Life / 13 The Letter as Artifact of Sentiment and Legal Evidence / 14 Infinite Variations of Writing and Desire: Love Letters in China and Europe / 15 Writing from Revolution’s Debris: Shen Congwen’s Family Letters in the Mao Era / 16 Captured in Words: Functions and Limits of Autobiographical Expression in Early Chinese Epistolary Literature / 17 Civil Examinations and Cover Letters in the Mid-Tang: Dugu Yu’s (776–815) “Letter Submitted to Attendant Gentleman Quan of the Ministry of Rites” / 18 The Inscription of Emotion in Mid-Tang Collegial Letters / 19 Halves and Holes: Collections, Networks, and Epistolary Practices of Chan Monks / 20 Letters as Windows on Ming-Qing Women’s Literary Culture / 21 Epistolary Networks and Practice in the Early Qing: The Letters Written to Yan Guangmin / 22 Aid and Comfort: Lu Zhaolin’s Letters / 23 She Association Circulars from Dunhuang / 24 Between Writing and Publishing Letters: Publishing a Letter about Book Proprietorship / 25 Opinions Going Public: Letters to the Editors in China’s Earliest Modern Newspapers / Scholarship on Chinese Epistolary Literature and Culture: A Select Bibliography -- Index. Antje Richter -- Y. Edmund Lien -- Amy McNair -- Suzanne E. Wright -- Xiaofei Tian -- David R. Knechtges -- Antje Richter -- Zeb Raft -- Robert Joe Cutter -- Pablo Ariel Blitstein -- Lik Hang Tsui -- Enno Giele -- Ronald Egan -- Janet Theiss -- Bonnie S. McDougall -- Jie Li -- Matthew Wells -- Alexei Ditter -- Anna M. Shields -- Natasha Heller -- Ellen Widmer -- David Pattinson -- Paul W. Kroll -- Imre Galambos -- Suyoung Son -- Natascha Gentz --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture is the first publication, in any language, that is dedicated to the study of Chinese epistolary literature and culture in its entirety, from the early empire to the twentieth century. The volume includes twenty-five essays dedicated to a broad spectrum of topics from postal transmission to letter calligraphy, epistolary networks to genre questions. It introduces dozens of letters, often the first translations into English, and thus makes epistolary history palpable in all its vitality and diversity: letters written by men and women from all walks of life to friends and lovers, princes and kings, scholars and monks, seniors and juniors, family members and neighbors, potential patrons, newspaper editors, and many more. With contributions by: Pablo Ariel Blitstein, R. Joe Cutter, Alexei Ditter, Ronald Egan, Imre Galambos, Natascha Gentz, Enno Giele, Natasha Heller, David R. Knechtges, Paul W. Kroll, Jie Li, Y. Edmund Lien, Bonnie S. McDougall, Amy McNair, David Pattinson, Zeb Raft, Antje Richter, Anna M. Shields, Suyoung Son, Janet Theiss, Xiaofei Tian, Lik Hang Tsui, Matthew Wells, Ellen Widmer, and Suzanne E. Wright.
9789004292123
10.1163/9789004292123 DOI
2015003080
Chinese letters--History and criticism.
Letter writing, Chinese.
Chinese letters.
Letter writing, Chinese.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PL2400 / .H57 2015
895.16/009