| Liu Tsung-Yuan and Intellectual Change in T'Ang China, 773 819 Contributor(s): Chen, Jo-Shui (Author), Jo-Shui, Chen (Author), Hannan, Patrick (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521030102 ISBN-13: 9780521030106 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $45.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: This is the first comprehensive study in a Western language of Liu Tsung-yUan, one of the finest prose stylists China has ever produced. Liu was not only a leading writer of T'ang China (618-906) but also an important thinker of his time. Examining every major aspect of his life and thought, the book also discusses the relationship of his thought to mid-T'ang intellectual changes and offers a new interpretation of the origins of a key intellectual watershed, the rise of Neo-Confucianism in the eleventh century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Literary Criticism | Asian - General |
| Dewey: 895.183 |
| LCCN: 2007273301 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institu |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6" W x 9" (0.77 lbs) 236 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first comprehensive study in a Western language of Liu Tsung-y an, one of the finest prose stylists China has ever produced. Liu was not only a leading writer of T'ang China (618-906) but also an important thinker of his time. Examining every major aspect of his life and thought, the book also discusses the relationship of his thought to mid-T'ang intellectual changes and offers a new interpretation of the origins of a key intellectual watershed, the rise of Neo-Confucianism in the eleventh century. |