Considering the end : mortality in early medieval Chinese poetic representation / by Timothy Wai Keung Chan.

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Chan, Timothy Wai Keung

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English, Chinese Series: Sinica Leidensia ; v. 107.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789004229020
9004229027

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Considering the end.DDC classification:

895.1/1209 23

LOC classification:

PL2313 .C36 2012

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Contents:

Timeline; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: As the End Approaches; 1. Wang Yi on Integrity and Loyalty; 2. A Young Lady on Yellow Pongee Silk; 3. Ruan Ji on Apocalypse; 4. Tao Qian on His Deathbed; 5. Xie Lingyun on Awakenin; 6. Composed on the Verge of Unnatural Death; 7. Epilogue: The Fisherman in Reclusion; Works Cited; Index.

Summary: This book focuses on the representation of human mortality in medieval Chinese literature. This theme is observed and reconstructed through analysis of the work of eminent writers of the period, texts that have never been examined from an eschatological perspective.

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This book focuses on the representation of human mortality in medieval Chinese literature. This theme is observed and reconstructed through analysis of the work of eminent writers of the period, texts that have never been examined from an eschatological perspective.