The friendships of writers of the mid-Tang era (780s–820s)—between literary giants like Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen, Han Yu and Meng Jiao, Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi—became famous through the many texts they wrote to and about one another. What inspired mid-Tang literati to write about their friendships with such zeal? And how did these writings influence Tang literary culture more b...(展开全部)

This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania). This book explores a new and innovative topic—the relationship between geographical advancements in the Mid-Tang period (790s to 820s) and spatial imaginaries in contemporaneous literature. Historically and politically, the Mid-Tang period is generally considered to be a peri...(展开全部)

This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania). This book explores a new and innovative topic—the relationship between geographical advancements in the Mid-Tang period (790s to 820s) and spatial imaginaries in contemporaneous literature. Historically and politically, the Mid-Tang period is generally considered to be a peri...(展开全部)

This book explores, through a series of essays, a set of interrelated elements that define the literary culture of China in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. This period, known as the Mid-Tang, broke with many of the intellectual habits of the “middle period” of Chinese culture and adumbrated many of the characteristics of China in the Song and later periods. The firs...(展开全部)

宇文所安,又名斯蒂芬·欧文。1946年生于美国密苏里州圣路易斯市,长于美国南方小城。1959年移居巴尔的摩。在巴尔的摩公立图书馆里沉湎于诗歌阅读,并初次接触中国诗,虽然只是中文翻译,但他迅速决定与其发生恋爱,至今犹然。1972年获耶鲁大学东亚系博士学位,随即执教耶鲁大学。二十年后应聘哈佛,任教东亚系、比较文学系,现为詹姆斯·布莱恩特·柯南德特级教授。有著作数种,论文多篇。其人也,性乐烟酒,心好诗歌。简脱不持仪形,喜俳谐。自言其父尝忧其业中国诗无以谋生,而后竟得自立,实属侥幸尔。

This book explores, through a series of essays, a set of interrelated elements that define the literary culture of China in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. This period, known as the Mid-Tang, broke with many of the intellectual habits of the “middle period” of Chinese culture and adumbrated many of the characteristics of China in the Song and later periods. The firs...(展开全部)

宇文所安,又名斯蒂芬·欧文。1946年生于美国密苏里州圣路易斯市,长于美国南方小城。1959年移居巴尔的摩。在巴尔的摩公立图书馆里沉湎于诗歌阅读,并初次接触中国诗,虽然只是中文翻译,但他迅速决定与其发生恋爱,至今犹然。1972年获耶鲁大学东亚系博士学位,随即执教耶鲁大学。二十年后应聘哈佛,任教东亚系、比较文学系,现为詹姆斯·布莱恩特·柯南德特级教授。有著作数种,论文多篇。其人也,性乐烟酒,心好诗歌。简脱不持仪形,喜俳谐。自言其父尝忧其业中国诗无以谋生,而后竟得自立,实属侥幸尔。