Memory in medieval China : : text, ritual, and community / / edited by Wendy Swartz, Robert Ford Campany.
Memory is not an inert container but a dynamic process. It can be structured by ritual, constrained by textual genre, and shaped by communities’ expectations and reception. Urging a particular view of the past on readers is a complex rhetorical act. The collective reception of portrayals of the past...
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| Superior document: | Sinica Leidensia ; Volume 140 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018] |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sinica Leidensia.
Volume 140. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (380 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Robert Ford Campany and Wendy Swartz
- 1 Artful Remembrance: Reading, Writing, and Reconstructing the Fallen State in Lu Ji’s “Bian wang” / Meow Hui Goh
- 2 Intertextuality and Cultural Memory in Early Medieval China: Jiang Yan’s Imitations of Nearly Lost and Lost Writers / Wendy Swartz
- 3 On Mourning and Sincerity in the Li ji and the Shishuo xinyu / Jack W. Chen
- 4 “Making Friends with the Men of the Past”: Literati Identity and Literary Remembering in Early Medieval China / Ping Wang
- 5 Yu Xin’s “Memory Palace”: Writing Trauma and Violence in Early Medieval Chinese Aulic Poetry / Xiaofei Tian
- 6 Structured Gaps: The Qianzi wen and Its Paratexts as Mnemotechnics / Christopher M.B. Nugent
- 7 Genre and the Construction of Memory: A Case Study of Quan Deyu’s 權德輿 (759-818) Funerary Writings for Zhang Jian 張薦 (744-804) / Alexei Kamran Ditter
- 8 Figments of Memory: “Xu Yunfeng” and the Invention of a Historical Moment / Sarah M. Allen
- 9 The Mastering Voice: Text and Aurality in the Ninth-century Mediascape / Robert Ashmore
- Index / Wendy Swartz and Robert Ford Campany.