Chinese Literature in Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
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ancient Chinese aesthetics
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Confucian philosophy
early medieval Chinese cultural shifts
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pentasyllabic verse
religious syncretism
Ruan Ji poetry
spiritual transformation
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- ISBN 9780860786894
- Weight: 800g
- Dimensions: 150 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 26 Mar 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This volume aims to account for the tremendous changes in the attitudes towards the world and towards themselves that can be seen in the works of Chinese writers in the early centuries of the Christian era. How do the massive conversion of such a large part of the population to Buddhism and the widespread development of the Daoist religion correspond to the conversion of the West to Christianity? Does this conversion to new religions that were replacing the ancient imperial religions represent similar developments on the eastern and western fringes of the Old World? Can we speak with any confidence of the gradual evolution of China from an 'Antiquity' to a 'Middle Ages'? The author attempts to show that, in their attitudes towards literature and their appreciation of landscape, during the Han and the first four centuries of the Christian era, we can see signs of a turning inward and the birth of new forms of spirituality akin to those that arose in the West during the same period.
Donald Holzman, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
