The Essentials of Governance

About Wu Jing

Hilde De Weerdt is Professor of Chinese History at Leiden University. She has authored and edited books on Chinese political culture and intellectual history including Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (11271276) (2007) Information Territory and Networks: The Crisis and Maintenance of Empire in Song China (2015) Political Communication in Chinese and European History 8001600 (2020) and Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print China Tenth-Fourteenth Centuries (2014). Glen Dudbridge (19382017) was Shaw Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford from 19892005 Honorary Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from 1996 and President of the European Association for Chinese Studies from 1998 to 2002. A pioneering scholar of traditional Chinese literature he published works on The Hsi-yu chi the legend of Miao-shan and the tale of Li Wa including Books Tales and Vernacular Culture: Selected Papers on China (2005) and A Portrait of Five Dynasties China: From the Memoirs of Wang Renyu 880956 (2013). Gabe van Beijeren is Lecturer at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies at Leiden University where he teaches courses in Classical Chinese and on Chinese history philosophy and religion. His research focuses on Tang history in particular the structuring of Tang historical texts as narratives and the rhetorical effects of narratives.