CHINESE STUDIES: CULTURE AND EMPIRE assignment 代写


CHINESE STUDIES: CULTURE AND EMPIRE 2017

FIRST ESSAY QUESTIONS

 

 
Please write an essay of 2000 words on ONEquestion.
The questions are below, in BOLD. Each one is followed by a list of sources to read to help you formulate an answer to the question.
The questions are whole paragraphs. Your answer should address every point in the paragraph.
Use the sources listed below the question to answer the question. Please use at least 5 of the sources.
If you wish to use other sources, please check with the lecturers, so that you can be sure that you are not using material that is not suitable.
 
(Please submit the electronic copy via the Turnitin link on LMS by April 13, 11.59pm)
 

 
QUESTION 1
 
Do you think that contact with foreign cultures from the late Han dynasty onwards fundamentally changed the character of Chinese culture, or were elements of cultural continuity with the earlier period more important?
 
 
Hansen, Valerie. The open empire : a history of China to 1600 New York : Norton, c2000.UniM Bail High Use 951.01 HANS OVERNIGHT LOAN

Adshead, Samuel Adrian M. China in world history Basingstoke, England : Macmillan Press, 1988.Gi
UniM Bail High Use 951 ADSH OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Liu, Xinru. The Silk Road in world history.Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.UniM Bail 950.1 LIU     
 
Lewis, Mark Edward. The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han.Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
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Lewis, Mark Edward.China between empires: the northern and southern dynastiesCambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
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Adshead, S.AM. T’ang China and World History New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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Lewis, Mark Edward. China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty Cambridge, MASS. Belknap, 2009 UniM Bail High Use 951.017 LEWI TWO HOUR LOAN
 
Li, Feng. Early China: social and cultural history. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013 \
(Available in State Library of Victoria, Redmond Barry Reading Room B 931 L61E)
 
 
QUESTION 2
 
Do you think that Chinese emperors in the early period were primarily religious figures, or were their religious functions less important than their political and military leadership roles?
 
 
Ching, Julia. Mysticism and kingship in China: the heart of Chinese wisdom.Cambridge, U.K.; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
UniM Baill 303.3095 CHIN
 
Wechsler, Howard J. Offerings of jade and silk: ritual and symbol in the legitimation of the T’ang Dynasty.  New Haven: Yale University Press, c1985.
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Wang, Aihe, Cosmology and political culture in early China.Cambridge,UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
UniM Baill 181.11 WANG
 
Bilsky, Lester J.The state religion of ancient China.Taipei: Orient Cultural Service, 1975.
UniM Baill 299.51 BILS: v.1
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Poo, Mu-chou.In search of personal welfare: a view of ancient Chinese religion.Albany: State University of New York Press, c1998
UniM Baill299.510901 POO
 
Ching, Julia. “Son of Heaven: sacral kingship in ancient China”. T’oung Pao 83, nos.1-3 (1997) 3-41
 
Loewe, Michael. “The cosmological context of sovereignty in Han times”.Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies 65/2 (2002), pp. 342-349.
 
Lewis, Mark Edward. Sanctioned violence in early China Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.
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Pines, Yuri.The everlasting empire: the political culture of ancient China and its imperial legacy.Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012 (University of Melburne Electronic Resource)
 
 
QUESTION 3
 
Was the Qin unification the product of a long-term historical tendency bringing the various parts of the Chinese world together or was it the result of the ambitions of the Qin state?
 
 
OR
 
To what extent was Qin Shihuang a unique figure in Chinese history?  How similar was he to preceding monarchs, and to those who followed him?
 
 
OR
 
Can we have a realistic picture of Qin Shihuang or are we too dependent on a small range of sources that have political and moral agendas that make it impossible for us to judge what he was really like?
 
 
Twitchett, Denis and Loewe, Michael (eds) The Cambridge History of China Volume 1: The Ch’in and Han Empires, 221 BC–AD 220Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 1986
UniM Bail Bail High Use 951 CAMB v.1 OVERNIGHT LOAN
UniM INTERNET resource
 
Lewis, Mark Edward.The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han.Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
UniM Bail Res951 LEWI TWO HOUR LOAN
 
Li, Feng. Early China:a social and cultural history  New York: Columbia University Press, 2013
(Available in State Library of Victoria, Redmond Barry Reading Room B 931 L61E)
 
Pines, Yuri.The everlasting empire: the political culture of ancient China and its imperial legacy.Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012 (University of Melburne Electronic Resource)
 
Wood, Frances. The first emperor of China.London : Profile, 2007.
UniM Bail High Use 951.014092 QIN/ WOOD OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Loewe, Michael.The government of the Qin and Han Empires: 221 BCE-220 CE.Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., c2006.
UniM Baill Res320.93109014 LOEW OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Sanft, Charles. “Notes on penal ritual and subjective truth under the Qin”.Asia Major 3rd series, 21, pt.2 2008) 35-57
 
Sanft, Charles. “The construction and deconstruction of Epanggong: notes from the crossroads of history and poetry”. Oriens Extremus 47 (2008) 160-176
 
Sanft, Charles. “Debating the route of the Qin Direct Road (Zhidao): text and excavation”. Frontiers of History in China 6, no.3 (Sep 2011)Pages: 323-346
 
Lai, Ming-chiu. “Legitimation of Qin-Han China: from the perspective of the feng and shan sacrifices (206 B.C.-A.D. 220)”. In: Leung, Philip Yuen-sang ( ed.). The Legitimation of New Orders: case studies in world history. Shatin, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2007, pp. 1-26.
 
Petersen, Jens Ostergard. “Which books did the first emperor of Ch’in burn? On the meaning of ‘pai chia’ in early Chinese sources”.Monumenta Serica 43 (1995) 1-52
 
Kiser, Edgar and Cai, Yong. “War and bureaucratization in QinChina: exploring an anomalous case”. American Sociological Review 68/4 (Aug 2003), pp. 511-539.
 
Yates, Robin D.S. “State control of bureaucracies under the Qin: techniques and procedures”. Early China 20 (1995), pp. 331-365.
 
Sanft, Charles. “Notes on penal ritual and subjective truth under the Qin”.Asia Major 3rd series, 21/2 (2008), pp. 35-57.
 
Pines, Yuri. “The question of interpretation: Qin history in light of new epigraphic sources”. Early China29 (2004), pp. 1-44.
 
Chen, Wei; Foster, Christopher J., tr. “A few issues regarding the statutes on corvée labor in the Yuelu Academy Qin dynasty bamboo slip manuscripts”. Chinese Cultural Relics 2, nos.1-2 (2015). Pp. 275-282.

Yamada, Katsuyoshi. “Offices and officials of works, markets and lands in the Ch’in dynasty”.Acta Asiatica 58 (1990), pp. 1-23.
 
Fields, Lanny B. “The Legalists and the fall of Ch’in: humanism and tyranny”. Journal of Asian History 17 (1983), pp. 1-39.
 
McLeod, Katrina C.D. and Yates, Robin D.S. “Forms of Ch’in law: an annotated translation of the Feng-chen shih”. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 41/1 (1981), pp. 111-163.
 
Durrant, Stephen.“Ssu-ma Ch’ien’s portrayal of the first Ch’in emperor”.In Brandauer, Frederick P.and Chun-chieh Huang (eds),Imperial rulership and cultural change in traditional China  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994.
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Yates, Robin D.S. “Social status in the Ch’in: evidence from the Yun-meng legal documents: part one: commoners”. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 47/1 (Jun 1987), pp. 197-237.
 
Yau, Shun-Chiu. “The political implications of the minority policy in the Qin law”.Early China 35-36 (2012-2013). Pages: 277-289
 
Sou, Daniel S. (Suh Sungbin). “Shaping Qin local officials: exploring the system of values and responsibilities presented in the excavated Qin tomb bamboo strips”. Monumenta Serica  61 (2013). Pp. 1-34.


 
QUESTION 4
 
Was the longevity of the Han the product of changing Qin structures or of preserving them?
 
 
OR
 
How important was aristocratic culture to the Han system?  Was is fundamentally an aristocratic empire or a bureaucratic one?
 
OR
 
Was the Han dynasty a successful compromise between centralising tendencies and local autonomy or was the persistence of both local autonomy and the image of a unified empire the result of neither localism nor centralising power being strong enough to cancel out the other?
 
 
 
Twitchett, Denis and Loewe, Michael (eds) The Cambridge History of China Volume 1: The Ch’in and Han Empires, 221 BC–AD 220.Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 1986
UniM Bail Bail High Use 951 CAMB v.1 OVERNIGHT LOAN
UniM INTERNET resource
 
Lewis, Mark Edward.The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han.Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
UniM Bail Res  951 LEWI TWO HOUR LOAN
 
Li, Feng. Early China:a social and cultural history  New York: Columbia University Press, 2013
(Available in State Library of Victoria, Redmond Barry Reading Room B 931 L61E)
 
Loewe, Michael.The government of the Qin and Han Empires: 221 BCE-220 CE.Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., c2006.
UniM Baill Res320.93109014 LOEW OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Hardy, Grant.The establishment of the Han empire and imperial China.Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005
UniM Baill Res931.04 HARD OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Pirazzoli-t’Serstevens, Michèle.The Han Dynasty. New York: Rizzoli, c1982.
UniM ERC B f 931.04 PIRA
 
Wang, Zhongshu, Han civilization. New Haven: Yale University Press, c1982.
UniM Baill 951.01 WANG
 
Goldin, Paul R. “Han law and the regulation of interpersonal relations: ‘the Confucianization of the law’ revisited”. Asia Major 3rd series, 25, pt.1 (2012) Pages: 1-31.
 
Goh, Meow Hui. “Becoming wen: the rhetoric in the ‘final edicts’ of Han Emperor Wen and Wei Emperor Wen”. Early Medieval China no.19 (2013) Pages: 58-79.
 
Zhang, Zhaoyang. “Revisiting the A.D. 28 case from Juyan: how was civil justice different from criminal justice in Han China?” Journal of Asian History 47, no.1 (2013) Pages: 51-79.
 
Hou, Xudong (trans Howard L. Goodman). “Rethinking Chinese kinship in the Han and the Six Dynasties: a preliminary observation”. Asia Major 3rd series, 23, pt.1 (2010) 29-63.
 
Sukhu, Gopal. “Yao, Shun, and prefiguration: the origins and ideology of the Han imperial genealogy”. Early China30 (2005-2006), pp. 91-153.
 
Wang, Aihe “Creators of an emperor: the political group behind the founding of the Han empire” Asia Major 3rd series, 14, pt.1 (2001) 19-50
 
Loewe, Michael. “The organs of Han imperial government: zhongdu guan, duguan, xianguan and xiandao guan”. Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies 71/3 (2008), pp. 509-528.
 
Korolkov, Maxim. “Arguing about law: interrogation procedure under the Qin and Former Han dynasties”. Études chinoises 30 (2011)Pages: 37-71.
 
Baker, Timothy Danforth, Jr. “An archaeology of history: the Wang Mang nine temples from early imperial China as reconstructed by history and by archaeology”. History and Anthropology 24, no.3 (2013). Pages: 380-397
 
Lu, Zhao. “To become Confucius: the apocryphal texts and Eastern Han Emperor Ming's political legitimacy”. Asia Major 3rd series, 28, pt.1 (2015). Pp. 115-144.
 
de Crespigny, Rafe. “Recruitment revisited: the commissioned civil service of Later Han”. Early Medieval China 13-14, pt.2 (2008) 1-47.
 
Hsü, Cho-yün.Han agriculture: the formation of early Chinese agrarian economy, 206 B.C.-A.D. 220. Seattle: University of Washington Press, c1980.
UniM ERC B 338.10931 HSU
 
Ch’ü, T’ung-tsu. Han social structure Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1972.
UniM Baill 309.131 C559
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UniM Store 309.131 C559
UniM Store 309.131 C559
 
 
QUESTION 5
 
There were deep structural conflicts between rival interest groups in Han court politics (the royal family, palace women, scholars, the military and eunuchs):  was this a system of effective balancing between rival elements each necessary to the functioning of the structure, or was it the product of corrupt forces distorting politics by pursuing their own interests?
 
(PLEASE NOTE: the following books are a mixture of translations of original sources and works by scholars commenting on these – try to read some of each kind of book)
 
OR
 CHINESE STUDIES: CULTURE AND EMPIRE assignment 代写
Is it fair to speak of Han dynasty politics as essentially the product of attempts by men and women and parents and children to gain power over each other? How did the norms of Confucianism influence these struggles?
(PLEASE NOTE: the following books are a mixture of translations of original sources and works by scholars commenting on these – try to read some of each kind of book)
 
Twitchett, Denis and Loewe, Michael (eds) The Cambridge History of China Volume 1: The Ch’in and Han Empires, 221 BC–AD 220Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 1986
UniM Bail Bail High Use 951 CAMB v.1 OVERNIGHT LOAN
UniM INTERNET resource
 
Lewis, Mark Edward.The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han.Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
UniM Bail Res  951 LEWI TWO HOUR LOAN
 
Li, Feng. Early China:a social and cultural history  New York: Columbia University Press, 2013
(Available in State Library of Victoria, Redmond Barry Reading Room B 931 L61E)
 
Loewe, Michael. The government of the Qin and Han Empires: 221 BCE-220 CE. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., c2006.
UniM Baill Res  320.93109014 LOEW OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Hardy, Grant.The establishment of the Han empire and imperial China.Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005.
UniM Baill Res  931.04 HARD   OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Hinsch, Bret. “Male honor and female chastity in early China”.Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China 13, no.2 (2011) Pages: 169-204
 
Hinsch, Bret.Women in early imperial ChinaLanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
UniM Baill Res305.420931 HINS OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Hinsch, Bret. “The criticism of powerful women by Western Han: dynasty portent experts”.Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 49, pt.1 (2006) 96-121
 
Loewe, Michael. “Confucian values and practices in Han China”. T’oung Pao 98, nos.1-3 (2012)Pages: 1-30.
 
Emmerich, Reinhard. “Wang Chong’s praises for the Han dynasty”.Monumenta Serica 56 (2008) 117-148.
 
Hinsch, Bret. “The origins of Han-dynasty consort kin power”.East Asian History nos.25-26 (Jun-Dec 2003) 1-24
 
Loewe, Michael. “On the terms bao zi, yin gong, yin guan, huan, and shou: was Zhao Gao a eunuch?” T’oung Pao 91/4-5 (2005), pp. 301-319.
 
Young, Gregory C. “Court politics in the later Han: officials and the consort clan, AD 132-44”. Papers on Far Eastern History 34 (Sep 1986) 1-36
 
Hou, Xudong (trans Howard L. Goodman). “Rethinking Chinese kinship in the Han and the Six Dynasties: a preliminary observation”. Asia Major 3rd series, 23, pt.1 (2010) 29-63
 
Brown, Miranda and De Crespigny, Rafe. “Adoption in Han China”.Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 52, pt.2 (2009) 229-266
 
Tao, Tien-yi. “The system of imperial succession during China’s former Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-9 A.D.)”.Papers on Far Eastern History 18 (Sep 1978), pp. 171-191.
 
Raphals, Lisa Ann.Sharing the light: representations of women and virtue in early China Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, c1998.
UniM Baill 305.40951 RAPH
 
Hardy, Grant. Worlds of bronze and bamboo: Sima Qian’s conquest of history. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
UniM Baill 931.04 HARD
 
Cheng, Anne.“What did it mean to be a ru in Han times?” Asia Major3rd series, 14, pt.2 (2001) 101-118
 
Nylan, Michael.“Sima Qian: a true historian?” Early China23-24 (1998-1999) 203-246
 
Mansvelt-Beck, B. J.The treatises of later Han: their author, sources, contents, and place in Chinese historiography Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1990.
UniM Baill 931.04 SSU/MANS
 
Ssu-ma, Ch`ien, (Sima Qian; translated by Burton Watson) Records of the grand historian: Han dynasty Hong Kong; New York: Renditions-Columbia University Press, c1993.
UniM Baill 931.04 SSUM: v.2
UniM Baill 931.04 SSUM: v.1
 
Ssu-ma, Ch`ien, (trans. William H. Nienhauser).The grand scribe’s records. Ssu-ma Ch`ien;, Jr., editor; Tsai-fa Cheng ... [et al.],
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1994-
UniM Baill 931 SSUM v.1
 
Ssu-ma, Ch’ien.Statesman, patriot, and general in ancient China: three Shih chi biographies of the Ch’in dynasty (255-206 B.C).Translated and discussed by Derk Bodde. New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1940; New York: Kraus Reprint Corp., 1967.
UniM ERC B 951.011 S774
 
 
QUESTION 6
 
Many people think that Chinese culture is less preoccupied with religious matters than other cultures.  Do you think this is accurate in relation to the Han dynasty?  How would your answer to this question relate to what we know about Han dynasty concepts of death and its role in human life and to issues like fate and destiny?
 
 
Loewe, Michael. Chinese ideas of life and death : faith, myth and reason in the Han period (202 BC-AD 220)London ; Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1982.
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Galvany, Albert. “Death and ritual wailing in early China: around the funeral of Lao Dan”. Asia Major 3rd series, 25, pt.2 (2012) Pages: 15-42
 
Wu, Hung.Monumentality in early Chinese art and architecture Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995.
UniM Baill 709.31 WU
VicColArts Book 709.31 Wu /0001 acn:92061
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Poo, Mu-chou. “Preparation for the afterlife in ancient China”.  In: Olberding, Amy; Ivanhoe, Philip J., eds. Mortality in traditional Chinese thought. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2011. Pages: 13-36
 
Sun, Xiaochun. The Chinese sky during the Han: constellating stars and society.Leiden; New York: Brill, 1997.
UniM ERC B 520.931 SUN
 
James, Jean M.A guide to the tomb and shrine art of the Han dynasty 206 B.C.-A.D.220.Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, c1996.
UniM ERC B 704.9489951 JAME
 
Barrett, T.H.” Superstition and its others in Han China”.Past and Present 199, no.3, supplement (2008) 95-114
 
Poo, Mu-chou. “Ideas concerning death and burial in pre-Han and Han China”: Asia Major (Princeton, NJ) 3rd series, 3, pt.2 (1990) 25-62
 
Loewe, Michael. “Divination by shells, bones and stalks during the Han period”.T’oung Pao 74/1-3 (1988), pp. 81-118.
 
Bielenstein, Hans. “Han portents and prognostications”.Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Bulletin 56 (1984), pp. 97-112.
 
Kern, Martin. “In praise of political legitimacy. The miao and jiao hymns of the Western Han”.Oriens Extremus 39/1 (1996), pp. 29-67.
 
Brashier, K.E. “Longevity like metal and stone: the role of the mirror in Han burials”. T’oung Pao 81/4-5 (1995), pp. 201-229.
 
Emmerich, Reinhard. “Wang Chong’s praises for the Han dynasty”.Monumenta Serica 56 (2008) 117-148
 
Cai, Liang. “The hermeneutics of omens: the bankruptcy of moral cosmology in Western Han China (206 BCE-8 CE)”. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3rd series, 25, pt.3 (Jul 2015). Pp. 439-459


 
QUESTION 7
 
 
Were people attracted to Daoism at the end of the Han because they lived in times in which political authority had broken down, or did the breakdown of political authority have little to do with why Daoism emerged and became popular at this time?
 
Lewis, Mark Edward.China between empires: the northern and southern dynasties.Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
UniM Bail High Use 931.04 LEWI  OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Miller,James.The way of highest clarity : nature, vision and revelation in medieval China.Magdalena, NM : Three Pines Press, c2008.
UniM Bail High Use 299.5149 MILL OVERNIGHT LOAN   
 
Eskildsen, Stephen. Asceticism in Early Taoist ReligionAlbany : State University of New York Press, c1998.
UniM Bail High Use 299.514447 ESKI OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Kleeman, Terry F.Great Perfection: religion and ethnicity in a Chinese millennial kingdomHonolulu : University of Hawai’i Press, c1998.
UniM Bail High Use 931.04 KLEE OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Barrett, T.H. “Climate change and religious response: the case of early medieval China”.Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3rd series, 17/2 (Jul 2007), pp. 139-156.
 
Lai, Chi-tim. “The demon statutes of Nuqing and the problem of the bureaucratization of the netherworld in early heavenly master Daoism”.T’oung Pao 88, nos.4-5 (2002) 251-281.
 
Lai, Chi-Tim. “The opposition of celestial-master Taoism to popular cults during the Six Dynasties”. Asia Major (Taipei) 3rd series, 11, pt.1 (1998) 1-20.
 
Kirkland, Russell. “Ssu-ma Ch’eng-chen and the rule of Taoism in the medieval Chinese polity”.Journal of Asian History (Wiesbaden, Germany) 31, no.2 (1997) 105-138.
 
Campany, Robert Ford. “Two religious thinkers of the early Eastern Jin: Gan Bao and Ge Hong in multiple contexts”.Asia Major3rd series, 18, pt.1 (2005) 175-224.
 
Goodman, Howard L.“Chinese polymaths, 100-300 AD: the Tung-kuan, Taoist dissent, and technical skills”.Asia Major 3rd series, 18, pt.1 (2005) 101-174
 
Raz, Gil. “Time manipulation in early Daoist ritual: the East Well Chart and the Eight Archivists”. Asia Major 3rd series, 18, pt.2 (2005) 27-65.
 
Kohn, Livia. “Medieval Daoist ordination: origins, structure, and practice”. Acta Orientalia  56, nos.2-4 (2003) 379-398.
 
Kohn, Livia. “Eternal life in Taoist mysticism”.Journal of the American Oriental Society 110, no.4 (Oct-Dec 1990) 622-640.
 
Kohn, Livia. “A home for the immortals: the layout and development of medieval Daoist monasteries”. Acta Orientalia 53, nos.1-2 (2000) 79-106.
 
Kohn, Livia. “Daoist monastic discipline: hygiene, meals, and etiquette”. T’oung Pao 87, nos.1-3 (2001) 153-193.
 
Kohn, Livia. “Steal holy food and come back as a viper: conceptions of karma and rebirth in medieval Daoism”. Early Medieval China 4 (1998) 1-48.
 
Kohn, Livia.“The date and compilation of the Fengdao Kejie, the first handbook of monastic Daoism”.East Asian History nos.13-14 (Jun-Dec 1997) 91-118.
 
Kohn, Livia. “Mind and eyes: sensory and spiritual experience in Taoist mysticism (Wu Yun)”. Monumenta Serica 46 (1998) 129-156.
 
Jia, Jinhua. “Longevity technique and medical theory: the legacy of the Tang Daoist priestess-physician Hu Yin”. Monumenta Serica 63, no.1 (2015). Pp. 1-31.


Hendrischke, Barbara. “The virtue of conformity: the religious re-writing of political biography.In  Benjamin Penny, (ed.) Religion and biography in China and Tibet. Richmond, Surrey, Eng.: Curzon Press, 2002. Pp. 30-48.
 
Bokenkamp, Stephen R. “Research note: Buddhism in the writings of Tao Hongjing”. Daoism: Religion, History and Society no.6 (2014). Pages: 247-268
 
Hendrischke, Barbara.“The concept of inherited evil in Taiping Jing”.East Asian History no.2 (Dec 1991) 1-30
 
Hendrischke, Barbara.“The Daoist utopia of great peace”.Oriens Extremus 35, Heft 1-2 (1992) 61-91
 
Bokenkamp, Stephen.“Lu Xiujing, Buddhism, and the first Daoist canon”.In Scott Pearce, Audrey Spiro and Patricia Ebrey (eds.).Culture and power in the reconstitution of the Chinese realm, 200-600. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001.pp181-199.
UniM Bail Res951 CULT OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Bokenkamp, Stephen R. “Time after time: Taoist apocalyptic history and the founding of the Tang dynasty”. Asia Major 3rd series, 7, pt.1 (1994) 59-88.
 
Kohn, Livia.The Daoist monastic manual: a translation of the Fengdao kejie.New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
 UniM Bail299.514657 DAOI
 
Kohn, Livia.Early Chinese mysticism: philosophy and soteriology in the Taoist tradition.Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1992.
UniM Bail Res  299.51442209 KOHN OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Kohn, Livia.Laughing at the Tao: debates among Buddhists and Taoists in medieval China.Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1995.
UniM Bail Res  299.514 HSIA OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Kohn, Livia.Monastic life in medieval Daoism: a cross-cultural perspective. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, c2003.
UniM Bail Res  299.514657 KOHN OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Bokenkamp, Stephen R.  Early Daoist scriptures.Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997.
UniM Bail299.51482 BOKE
 
Benn, Charles D. The Cavern-mystery transmission: a Taoist ordination rite of A.D. 711.Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1991.
UniM Bail299.51438 BENN
 
Cahill, Suzanne E.  Transcendence & divine passion: the Queen Mother of the West in medieval China.Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993.
UniM Bail  299.5142114 HSI/CAHI
 
Bokenkamp, Stephen R. “The early Lingbao scriptures and the origins of Daoist monasticism”. Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 20 (2011). Pages: 95-124


Hendrischke, Barbara. “Options for molding ming (fate) in the Scripture on Great Peace”. Daoism: Religion, History and Society no.6 (2014). Pages: 3-31

Hendrischke, Barbara. “Religious ethics in the Taiping jing: the seeking of life”. Daoism: Religion, History and Society no.4 (2012). Pages: 53-93


Stanley-Baker, Michael. “Drugs, destiny, and disease in medieval China: situating knowledge in context”. Daoism: Religion, History and Society.6 (2014). Pp. 113-156.


Kleeman, Terry F. “The performance and significance of the Merging the Pneumas (heqi) rite in early Daoism”. Daoism: Religion, History and Society no.6 (2014). Pages: 85-112
 
Lü, Pengzhi. “The Lingbao fast of the Three Primes and the Daoist Middle Prime Festival: a critical study of the Taishang Dongxuan Lingbao Sanyuan Pinjie Jing”. Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 20 (2011). Pages: 35-61

Pregadio, Fabrizio. “Destiny, vital force, or existence? On the meanings of ming in Daoist internal alchemy and its relation to xing or human nature”.Daoism: Religion, History and Society no.6 (2014). Pages: 157-218
 
 
QUESTION 8
 
Why did Buddhism become popular in China after the Han dynasty?  Did the historical context within which Chinese Buddhism emerged mark it as different from Buddhism in other countries which became Buddhist?
 
 
OR
 
Were there really significant conflicts between Buddhism and Chinese cultural values (such as filial piety)?  If there were, how did Buddhists in China overcome them?
OR
 
Was Buddhism difficult for Chinese people to accept because it was ‘foreign’ or was it no more challenging for Chinese people than, for example, Christianity in the Roman Empire, or Islam in Indonesia, or Buddhism in other countries?
 
Zurcher, Erik.The Buddhist conquest of China: the spread and adaptation of Buddhism in early Medieval China.Leiden: Brill, 1959.
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Weinstein, Stanley.Buddhism under the T’ang.Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
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Lee, Sonya S.Surviving nirvana : death of the Buddha in Chinese visual cultureKong : Hong Kong University Press, 2010.
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Kieschnick, John, The eminent monk : Buddhist ideals in medieval Chinese hagiography Honolulu : University of Hawai’i Press, c1997.
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Salguero, C. Pierce. “Fields of merit, harvests of health: some notes on the role of medical karma in the popularization of Buddhism in early medieval China”Asian Philosophy 23, no.4 (Nov 2013) Pages: 341-349.
 
Broy, Nikolas. “Martial monks in medieval Chinese Buddhism”.Journal of Chinese Religions no.40 (2012) Pages: 45-89.
 
Lo, Yuet Keung. “Conversion to chastity: a Buddhist catalyst in early imperial China”. Nan Nu: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China 10/1 (2008), pp. 22-56.
 
Skonicki, Douglas. “A Buddhist response to Ancient-style Learning: Qisong’s conception of political order”. T’oung Pao 97, nos.1-3 (2011)Pages: 1-36
 
Strange, Mark. “Representations of Liang Emperor Wu as a Buddhist ruler in sixth- and seventh-century texts”.Asia Major 3rd series, 24, pt.2 (2011)Pages: 53-112
 
Yao, Ping. “Good karmic connections: Buddhist mothers in Tang China”. Nan Nu: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China10/1 (2008), pp. 57-85.
 
Chen, Jinhua. “A Daoist princess and a Buddhist temple: a new theory on the causes of the canon-delivering mission originally proposed by Princess Jinxian (689-732) in 730”. Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies 69/2 (2006), pp. 267-292.
 
Chen, Jinhua. “The statues and monks of Shengshan Monastery: money and Maitreyan Buddhism in Tang China”.Asia Major 3rd series, 19/1-2 (2006), pp. 111-160.
 
Benn, James A. “Written in flames: self-immolation in sixth-century Sichuan”. T’oung Pao 92/4-5 (2006), pp. 410-465.
 
Chen, Jinhua. “Images, legends, politics, and the origin of the Great Xiangguo Monastery in Kaifeng: a case-study of the formation and transformation of Buddhist sacred sites in medieval China”.Journal of the American Oriental Society 125/3 (Jul-Sep 2005), pp. 353-378.
 
Lo, Yuet Keung. “Recovering a Buddhist voice on daughters-in-law: the Yuyenu Jing”. History of Religions 44/4 (May 2005), pp. 318-350.
 
Barrett, T.H. “Was there an imperial distribution of Buddha relics in ninth-century China?” Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies 68/3 (2005), pp. 451-454.
 
Heirman, Ann. “Buddhist nuns through the eyes of leading early Tang masters”. Chinese Historical Review 22, no.1 (May 2015). Pp. 31-51.


Chen, Jinhua. “The Indian Buddhist missionary Dharmaksema (385-433): a new dating of his arrival in Guzang and of his translations”. T’oung Pao 90/4-5 (2004), pp. 215-263.
 
Chen, Jinhua. “The location and chief members of Siksananda’s (652-710) Avatamsaka Translation Office: some remarks on a Chinese collection of stories and legends related to the Avatamsaka Sutra”. Journal of Asian History 38/2 (2004), pp. 121-140.
 
Funayama, Toru. “The acceptance of Buddhist precepts by the Chinese in the fifth century”.Journal of Asian History 38/2 (2004), pp. 97-120.
 
Funayama, Tōru. “Buddhism during the Liang dynasty: some of its characteristics as a form of scholarship”. Acta Asiatica 109 (Aug 2015). Pp 71-100.
 
Lu, Yang. “Narrative and historicity in the Budddhist biographies of early medieval China: the case of Kumarajiva”. Asia Major 3rd series, 17/2 (2004), pp. 1-43.
 
Chen, Jinhua. “Family ties and Buddhist nuns in Tang China: two studies”. Asia Major 3rd series, 15/2 (2002), pp. 51-85.
 
Chen, Jinhua. “Pusaseng [bodhisattva-monks]: a peculiar monastic institution at the turn of the Northern Zhou (557-581) and Sui (581-618) dynasties”. Journal of Chinese Religions 30 (2002), pp. 1-22.
 
Liu, Shufen. “Ethnicity and the suppression of Buddhism in fifth-century north China: the background and significance of the Gaiwu Rebellion”. Asia Major 3rd series, 15/1 (2002), pp. 1-21.
 
Greene, Eric M. “Healing breaths and rotting bones: on the relationship between Buddhist and Chinese meditation practices during the Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms period”.  Journal of Chinese Religions 42, no.2 (Nov 2014). Pp. 145-184.


Qian, Nanxiu. “Cultural and ritual empowerment of women in the Northern courts: Yu Xin’s epitaphic writings”. Frontiers of Literary Studiesin China 5, no.4 (Dec 2011) Pages: 511-536
 
Ho, Puay-Peng. “Building on hope: monastic sponsors and merit in sixth- to tenth-century China”Asia Major) 3rd series, 17, pt.1 (2004) 35-57
 
Berezkin, Rostislav and Mair, Victor H. “The Precious Scroll on Bodhisattva Guanshiyin from Jingjiang, and Confucian morality”. Journal of Chinese Religions 42, no.1 (May 2014). Pages: 1-27
 
Lo, Yuet Keung. “Beneath sensationalized conflict: Buddhist conjugal relation in early medieval China”. Chinese Historical Review 22, no.1 (May 2015). Pp. 5-30.


Hu, Yao. “The elevation of the status of the Lotus Sutra in the panjiao systems of China”.Journal of Chinese Religions 42, no.1 (May 2014). Pages: 67-94

Jülch, Thomas. “On whether or not Buddhist monks should bow to the emperor: Yancong's (557-610) 'Futian lun' (Treatise on the Fields of Blessedness)”. Monumenta Serica 60 (2012). Pages: 1-43
 
Heirman, Ann. “Sleep well! Sleeping practices in Buddhist disciplinary rules”.Acta Orientalia 65, no.4 (Dec 2012). Pages: 427-444

Ho, Chien-hsing. “Ontic indeterminacy and paradoxical language: a philosophical analysis of Sengzhao's linguistic thought”. Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 12, no.4 (Dec 2013). Pages: 505-522
 
Liu, Zhen; Chen, Huaiyu.“Some reflections on an early Mahāyāna text Hastikakṣyasūtra”.Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies 77, no.2 (2014). Pages: 293-312
 
Shinohara, Koichi. “Dhāraṇīs and visions in early esoteric Buddhist sources in Chinese translation”. Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies 77, no.1 (2014). Pages: 85-103


Zhang, Zhenjun. “From demonic to karmic retribution: changing concepts of bao in early medieval China as seen in the You ming lu”. Acta Orientalia 66, no.3 (Sep 2013). Pages: 267-287
 
Wang, Youru. “Paradoxicality of institution, de-institutionalization and the counter-institutional: a case study in classical Chinese Chan Buddhist thought”. Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 11, no.1 (Mar 2012). Pages: 21-37
 
Wong, Kwok-Yiu. “The mid-Tang scholar-monk Shenqing and his Beishan lu”. Monumenta Serica 63, no.1 (2015). Pp. 32-78.
 
 
QUESTION 9
 
Was there a link between the cultural creativity in China in the period of disunion between the fall of the Han and the rise of the Tang and the lack of political unity?
 
OR
 
Did non-Han peoples invigorate Chinese culture after the fall of the Han or did they debase it?
 
Lewis, Mark Edward.China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties Cambridge, MASS.: Belknap Press, 2009.
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Pearce, Scott. Audrey Spiro; and Patricia Ebrey (eds).Culture and power in the reconstitution of the Chinese realm, 200-600.Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2001.
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Dien, Albert E.Six dynasties civilization.New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007
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Chittick, Andrew.Patronage and community in medieval China: the Xianyang garrison, 400-600 CE.Albany : State University of New York Press, c2009.
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Heng, Chye Kiang, Cities of aristocrats and bureaucrats : the development of medieval Chinese citiesHonolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c1999.
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Williams, Nicholas Morrow. “The metaphysical lyric of the Six Dynasties” T’oung Pao 98, nos.1-3 (2012) Pages: 65-112
 
Kieser, Annette “‘Laid to rest there among the mountains he loved so well’? In search of Wang Xizhi’s tomb”.Early Medieval China no.17 (2011)Pages: 74-94
 
Chittick, Andrew. “Competitive spectacle during China’s Northern and Southern Dynasties: with particular emphasis on ‘dragon’ boat racing”. Asia Major 3rd series, 23, pt.1 (2010) 65-85
 
Chennault, Cynthia L. “Lofty gates or solitary impoverishment? Xie family members of the Southern Dynasties”.T’oung Pao 85/4-5 (1999), pp. 249-327.
 
Campany, Robert Ford. “Two religious thinkers of the early Eastern Jin: Gan Bao and Ge Hong in multiple contexts”.Asia Major3rd series, 18, pt.1 (2005) 175-224
 
Strange, Mark. “Representations of Liang Emperor Wu as a Buddhist ruler in sixth- and seventh-century texts”.Asia Major 3rd series, 24, pt.2 (2011)Pages: 53-112
 
Goodman, Howard L.“Chinese polymaths, 100-300 AD: the Tung-kuan, Taoist dissent, and technical skills”.Asia Major 3rd series, 18, pt.1 (2005) 101-174
 
Liu, Shufen. “Jiankang and the commercial empire of the southern dynasties: change and continuity in medieval Chinese economic history”. In: Pearce, Scott; Spiro, Audrey and Ebrey, Patricia, eds. Culture and power in the reconstitution of the Chinese realm, 200-600. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001, pp. 35-52.
 
Holcombe, Charles. “Re-imagining China: the Chinese identity crisis at the start of the Southern Dynasties period”. Journal of the American Oriental Society 115/1 (Jan-Mar 1995), pp. 1-14.
 
Williams, Nicholas Morrow. “The metaphysical lyric of the Six Dynasties”.T’oung Pao 98, nos.1-3 (2012) Pages: 65-112
 
Mather, Richard B. “Intermarriage as a guage of family status in the Southern Dynasties”. In: Dien, Albert E., ed. State and society in early medieval China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP; Stanford, Calif: Stanford UP, 1990, pp. 211-228.
 
Spade, Beatrice.“The education of women in China during the Southern Dynasties”.Journal of Asian History 13/1 (1979), pp. 15-41.
 
Choo, Jessey J.C. “That 'fatty lump': discourses on the fetus, fetal development, and filial piety in China before the eleventh century CE”. Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China 14, no.2 (2012). Pages: 177-221
 
Beecroft, Alexander. “Oral formula and intertextuality in the Chinese ‘folk’ tradition (yuefu)”.Early Medieval China no.15 (2009) Pages: 23-47

Cai, Zong-Qi. “Evolving practices of guan and Liu Xie’s theory of literary interpretation”.  In: Chan, Alan K.L. and Lo, Yuet-Keung, eds. Interpretation and literature in early medieval China. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 2010. Pages: 103-132
Chan, Timothy Wai-Keung. “‘Jade flower’and the motif of mystic excursion in early religious Daoist poetry”.  In: Chan, Alan K.L. and Lo, Yuet-Keung, eds. Interpretation and literature in early medieval China. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 2010. Pp. 165-187

Chen, Jack W. “On hearing the donkey’s bray: friendship, ritual, and social convention in medieval China”. Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 33 (Dec 2011) Pages: 1-13

Doran, Rebecca. “Perspective and appreciation in Xie Lingyun’s ‘imitations of the Crown Prince of Wei’s Gatherings in Ye’”.Early Medieval China no.17 (2011) Pages: 51-73
Goodman, Howard L. “A history of court lyrics in China during Wei-Chin times”.  Asia Major 3rd series, 19, pts.1-2 (2006) Pages: 57-109

Goodman, Howard L. “The orphan Ts’ao P’i, his odd poem, and its historiographic frame”.  Asia Major 3rd series, 22, pt.1 (2009) Pages: 79-104
Sanders, Graham.“A new note on Shishuo xinyu”.Early Medieval China no.20 (2014). Pages: 9-22
Guo, Jianxun; Yao, Zhenjun, tr. “The ethical taboos and the expressions of affection between man and wife in the poems in the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties”.Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 2, no.1 (Mar 2008) Pages: 38-63 
Kirkova, Zornica. “Court poetry and Daoist revelations in the Late Six Dynasties”.  In: Rošker, Jana S.; Suhadolnik, Nataša Vampelj, eds. The yields of transition: literature, art and philosophy in early medieval China.  Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. Pages: 137-155

Knechtges, David. “Liu Kun, Lu Chen, and their writings in the transition to the Eastern Jin”.Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 28 (Dec 2006) Pages: 1-66
Kwong, Charles. “The aesthetics of parallelism in Chinese poetry: the case of Xie Lingyun”.  In: Rošker, Jana S.; Suhadolnik, Nataša Vampelj, eds. The yields of transition: literature, art and philosophy in early medieval China. New Castle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. Pages: 203-224

Lee, Brigitta. “Commemorating literary perfection: Xie Lingyun’s (385-433) imitative remembrance of Ying Yang (d. 217)”.  T’ang Studies no.26 (2008) Pages: 39-63
Lin, Pauline. “Rediscovering Ying Qu and his poetic relationship to Tao Qian”.  Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 69, no.1 (Jun 2009) Pages: 37-74

Lu, Yimin. “Restless on the border: military poetry of Six Dynasties China”.  Journal of Asian History 36 (2002) Pages: 32-73
Mather, Richard B..“The age-transcending friendship of the poets Fan Yun (413-503) and He Xun (ca. 470-519)”.Early Medieval China 13-14, pt.2 (2008) Pages: 79-86
Pearce, Scott. “The way of the warrior in early medieval China, examined through the ‘northern yuefu’”. Early Medieval China 13-14, pt.2 (2008) Pages: 87-113

Swartz, Wendy. “Naturalness in Xie Lingyun’s poetic works”.Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 70, no.2 (Dec 2010) Pages: 355-386

Tian, Xiaofei. “Seeing with the mind’s eye: the Eastern Jin discourse of visualization and imagination”. Asia Major 3rd series, 18, pt.2 (2005) Pages: 67-102

Tian, Xiaofei. “Woman in the tower: ‘Nineteen Old Poems’ and the poetics of un/concealment”. Early Medieval China no.15 (2009) Pages: 3-21
Wang, Ping. “Sound of the maple on the Yangzi River: a topos of melancholia in early to medieval Chinese poetic writings”.  T’ang Studies no.26 (2008) Pages: 13-38

Wang, Ping. “Southern girls of Tibetan knights: a Liang (502-557) court performance”.  Journal of the American Oriental Society 128, no.1 (Jan-Mar 2008) Pages: 69-83j

Williams, Nicholas Morrow. “A conversation in poems: Xie Lingyun, Xie Huilian, and Jiang Yan”. Journal of the American Oriental Society 127, no.4 (Oct-Dec 2007) Pages: 491-506

Williams, Nicholas Morrow. “The metaphysical lyric of the Six Dynasties”.T’oung Pao 98, nos.1-3 (2012) Pages: 65-112

Wu, Fusheng. “Death and immortality in early medieval Chinese poetry: Cao Zhi and Ruan Ji”. Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 33 (Dec 2011) Pages: 15-26

Wu, Sujane. “The last word? Lu Yun’s ‘Nanzheng Fu’”. Early Medieval China no.17 (2011) Pages: 2-21

Zhang, Peiheng (trans. Zhang, Ruogu). “A study into the authenticity of the editorship of Lady Zhang Lihua under which Yutai xinyong comes out in the Chen empire in the period of the Six Southern dynasties”.  Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 2, no.4 (Dec 2008) Pages: 491-530
Wu, Fusheng. “‘I rambled and roamed together with you’: Liu Zhen’s (d. 217) four poems to Cao Pi”. Journal of the American Oriental Society 129, no.4 (Oct-Dec 2009) Pages: 619-633
Owen, Stephen. “The librarian in exile: Xie Lingyun’s bookish landscapes”.  Early Medieval China 10-11, pt.1 (2004) Pages: 203-226
Cai, Zongqi. “The early philosophical discourse on language and reality and Lu Ji's and Liu Xie's theories of literary creation”. Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 5, no.4 (Dec 2011). Pages: 477-510
 
QUESTION 10
 
Did aristocrats weaken the power of the central government in the Northern and Southern Dynasties or were these governments really coalitions of aristocrats?
 
OR
 
Did women have more power in the Northern and Southern Dynasties or did women involved in political activity in this period essentially continue Han dynasty patterns?  (Could factors such as the more strongly aristocratic character of society in this time, and the heavy influence of non-Chinese people have introduced different ideas about women’s political roles)
 
OR
 
Did the culture of the Northern and Southern Dynasties represent an important new phase in Chinese cultural history or was it a continuation of earlier trends?
 
Lewis, Mark Edward.China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties.Cambridge, MASS.: Belknap Press, 2009
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Pearce, Scott; Audrey Spiro; and Patricia Ebrey (eds).Culture and power in the reconstitution of the Chinese realm, 200-600.Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2001.
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Dien, Albert E.Six dynasties civilization.New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007
UniM Baill Res951.01 DIEN OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley.The aristocratic families of early imperial China: a case study of the Po-ling Ts’ui family Cambridge [Eng.]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978
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Heng, Chye Kiang, Cities of aristocrats and bureaucrats : the development of medieval Chinese citiesHonolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c1999.
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Holmgren, Jennifer. “Social mobility in the northern dynasties: a case study of the Feng of northern Yen”. Monumenta Serica 35 (1981-1983) 19-32
 
Pearce, Scott. “A king’s two bodies: the Northern Wei Emperor Wencheng and representations of the power of his monarchy”.  Frontiers of History in China 7, no.1 (Mar 2012) Pages: 90-105
 
Chennault, Cynthia L.“Lofty gates or solitary impoverishment? Xie family members of the Southern Dynasties”.T’oung Pao 85, nos.4-5 (1999) 249-327
 
Ochi, Shigeaki. “The Southern Dynasties aristocratic system and dynastic change”.Acta Asiatica60 (1991) 54-77
 
Yasuda, Jiro. “The changing aristocratic society of the Southern Dynasties and regional society: particularly in the Hsiang-yang region”. Acta Asiatica (Tokyo) no.60 (1991) 25-53
 
Holmgren, J. “The making of an élite: local politics and social relations in Northeastern China during the fifth century A.D.”. Papers on Far Eastern History 30 (Sep 1984), pp. 1-79.
 
Holmgren, J. “Race and class in fifth century China: the Emperor Kao-tsu’s marriage reform”. Early Medieval China 2 (1995-1996), pp. 86-117.
 
Yoshikawa, Tadao. “'Family scholarship' during the Six Dynasties and its milieu”.Acta Asiatica 109 (Aug 2015). Pp. 49-70.


 
QUESTION 11
 
How far did political factors, such as the need for governments to prove that they were legitimate successors to the Han cultural legacy, determine the shape of culture in the Northern and Southern Dynasties?  How far did cultural factors, such as the non-Han heritage of the Northern Dynasties’ ruling houses, determine the shape of culture in this period?
 
 
Lewis, Mark Edward.China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties.Cambridge, MASS.: Belknap Press, 2009
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Pearce, Scott;Audrey Spiro; and Patricia Ebrey (eds).Culture and power in the reconstitution of the Chinese realm, 200-600.Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2001.
UniM Baill Res951 CULT OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Dien, Albert E Six dynasties civilization.New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007
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Heng, Chye Kiang, Cities of aristocrats and bureaucrats : the development of medieval Chinese citiesHonolulu : University of Hawai’i Press, c1999.
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Pearce, Scott “A king’s two bodies: the Northern Wei Emperor Wencheng and representations of the power of his monarchy” Frontiers of History in China 7, no.1 (Mar 2012) Pages: 90-105
 
Sun, Yinggang.  “Patronage and Community in Medieval China: the Xiangyang Garrison, 400-600 CE” (with Andrew Chittick’s response) Frontiers of History in China 7, no.3 (Sep 2012). Pages: 473-481
 
Pearce, Scott. “Nurses, nurslings, and new shapes of power in the mid-Wei court”.Asia Major 3rd series, 22, pt.1 (2009) 287-309
 
Eisenberg, Andrew. “Retired emperorship in medieval China: the Northern Wei”.T’oung Pao 77/1-3 (1991), pp. 49-87.
 
Dien, Albert E. “The role of the military in the Western Wei / Northern Chou state”. In: Dien, Albert E., ed. State and society in early medieval China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP; Stanford, Calif: Stanford UP, 1990, pp. 331-367.
 
Hou, Xudong. “On hamlets (cun) in the Northern Dynasties”.Early Medieval China 13-14/1 (2007), pp. 99-141.
 
Pearce, Scott. “Status, labor, and law: special service households under the Northern Dynasties”.Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 51/1 (Jun 1991), pp. 89-138.
 
Corradini, Piero. “Notes on the policy and the administration of the Northern Zhou”.Rivista degli studi orientali 78/1-2 (2004), pp. 123-137.
 
Holmgren, J. “Northern Wei as a conquest dynasty: current perceptions; past scholarship”. Papers on Far Eastern History 40 (Sep 1989), pp. 1-50.
 
Holmgren, J. “The harem in Northern Wei politics-398-498 A.D.: a study of T’o-pa attitudes towards the institution of empress, empress-dowager, and regency governments in the Chinese dynastic system during early Northern Wei”.Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 26/1 (Feb 1983), pp. 71-96.
 
Holmgren, J. “The Lu clan of Tai commandery and their contribution to the T’o-pa state of Northern Wei in the fifth century”. T’oung Pao 69/4-5 (1983), pp. 272-312.
 
Holmgren, J. “Wei-shu records on the bestowal of imperial princesses during the Northern Wei dynasty”.Papers on Far Eastern History 27 (Mar 1983), pp. 21-97.
 
Holmgren, Jennifer. “Princes and favorites at the court of emperor Shih-tsung of Northern Wei, c. 500-510”.Journal of Oriental Studies 20/2 (1982), 95-127.
 
Jenner, W.J.F. “Northern Wei Loyang: an unnecessary capital?” Papers on Far Eastern History 23 (Mar 1981), pp. 147-163.
 
Holmgren, Jennifer. “Lineage falsification in the northern dynasties: Wei Shou’s ancestry”. Papers on Far Eastern History 21 (Mar 1980), pp. 1-16.
 
Holmgren, J. “Seeds of madness: a portrait of Kao Yang, first emperor of northern Ch’i, 530-560 A.D.”. Papers on Far Eastern History 24 (Sep 1981), pp. 83-134.
 
Holmgren, J. “The making of an élite: local politics and social relations in Northeastern China during the fifth century A.D.”. Papers on Far Eastern History 30 (Sep 1984), pp. 1-79.
 
Holmgren, J. “Race and class in fifth century China: the Emperor Kao-tsu’s marriage reform”. Early Medieval China 2 (1995-1996), pp. 86-117.
 
Holmgren, J. “The Lu clan of Tai commandery and their contribution to the T’o-pa state of Northern Wei in the fifth century”. T’oung Pao 69/4-5 (1983), pp. 272-312.
 
Holmgren, J. “Northern Wei as a conquest dynasty: current perceptions; past scholarship”. Papers on Far Eastern History 40 (Sep 1989), pp. 1-50.
 
Holmgren, J. “Family marriage and political power in sixth century China: a study of the Kao family of Nothern Ch’i, c.520-550”. Journal of Asian History 16/1 (Sum 1982), pp. 1-50.
 
Holmgren, J. “Wei-shu records on the bestowal of imperial princesses during the Northern Wei dynasty”.Papers on Far Eastern History 27 (Mar 1983), pp. 21-97.
 
Holmgren, J. “The harem in Northern Wei politics-398-498 A.D.: a study of T’o-pa attitudes towards the institution of empress, empress-dowager, and regency governments in the Chinese dynastic system during early Northern Wei”. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 26/1 (Feb 1983), pp. 71-96.
 
Holmgren, Jennifer. “Widow chastity in the northern dynasties: the lieh-nu biographies in the Weishu”. Papers on Far Eastern History 23 (Mar 1981), pp. 165-186.
 
Holmgren, Jennifer. “Empress Dowager Ling of the Northern Wei and the T’o-pa sinicization question”. Papers on Far Eastern History 18 (Sep 1978), pp. 123-170.
 
Holmgren, Jennifer. “Women and political power in the traditional T’o-pa elite: a preliminary study of the biographies of empresses in the Wei-shu”. Monumenta Serica 35 (1981-1983), pp. 33-74.
 
Holmgren, Jennifer. “The last of the Mu-Jung: Southern Yen and the history of the Shantung Peninsula, AD 399-410”. Papers on Far Eastern History 42 (Sep 1990), pp. 1-46.
 
Holmgren, Jennifer. “Social mobility in the northern dynasties: a case study of the Feng of northern Yen”. Monumenta Serica 35 (1981-1983), pp. 19-32.
 
 
QUESTION 12
 
Do you think that Sui -Tang emperors and empresses failed to live up to Chinese political ideals or did they enact them?  How far is our image of these rulers shaped by the propaganda produced in the Tang
 
 
OR
 
Do you think that the Tang dynasty was an era of diversity in concepts of what made a good ruler (e.g. in the embrace of Daoist or feminine ideals), or were Confucian norms still dominant? 
 
OR
 
Is it fair to say that the Tang dynasty had strong emperors in the early phase who were succeeded by weaker rulers, or was the movement from a strong central state to a more decentralised state the product of developments in Chinese society that went beyond the personal traits of the emperors?
 
OR
 
Is the story of the Tang dynasty one of movement from strength to weakness, or is it one of major social and economic shifts, particularly through the expanded importance of south China in the later part of the Tang?
 
Mark Edward Lewis.China’s cosmopolitan empire: the Tang dynasty.Cambridge, Mass.; London: Belknap, 2009.
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Twitchett, Denis (ed.) The Cambridge History of China Volume 3: Sui and T’ang China, 589–906 AD, Part OneCambridge : Cambridge University Press 1979
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Wechsler, Howard J.Offerings of jade and silk: ritual and symbol in the legitimation of the T’ang Dynasty. New Haven: Yale University Press, c1985.
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Wechsler, Howard J.Mirror to the Son of Heaven: Wei Cheng at the court of T’ang T’ai-tsung.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974.
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Xiong, Victor Cunrui..Emperor Yang of the Sui dynasty: his life, times, and legacy Albany: State University of New York Press, c2006.
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Wright, Arthur F .The Sui dynastyNew York : Knopf, 1978.
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Guisso, R. W. L. Wu Tse-t`ien and the politics of legitimation in T`ang China.Bellingham, Wash.Western Washington, c1978.
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Herbert, P.A. Under the brilliant emperor : imperial authority in Tʻang China as seen in the writings of Chang Chiu-lingCanberra : Faculty of Asian Studies in association with Australian National University Press, 1978. UniM Bail High Use  951.01 H537 OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
FitzGerald, C. P.The Empress Wu. Vancouver: Publications Centre, University of British Columbia, 1968.
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Eisenberg, Andrew. “Emperor Gaozong, the rise of Wu Zetian, and factional politics in the early Tang” T’ang Studies no.30 (2012) Pages: 45-69
 
Twitchett, Denis. “How to be an emperor: T’ang T’ai-tsung’s vision of his role”. Asia Major 3rd series, 9/1-2 (1996), pp. 1-102.
 
Wechsler, Howard J. “The Confucian impact on early T’ang decision-making”. T’oung Pao 66/1-3 (1980), pp. 1-40.
 
Kroll, Paul W. “The life and writings of Xu Hui (627-650), worthy consort, at the early Tang court”. Asia Major 3rd series, 22, pt.2 (2009) 35-64
 
Twitchett, Denis. “The T’ang imperial family”.Asia Major3rd series, 7, pt.2 (1994) 1-61.
 
Fuller, Michael A. “Defining the sovereign body”. T'ang Studies no.30 (2012). Pages: 70-85
 
 
QUESTION 13
 
What caused the crisis of the Tang dynasty in the 8^th century?  How did it survive that crisis?  Why did it fall in the early 10^th century?
 
Twitchett, Denis (ed.) The Cambridge History of China Volume 3: Sui and T’ang China, 589–906 AD, Part OneCambridge : Cambridge University Press 1979
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UniM INTERNET resource
 

Adshead, S.A.M. T’ang China The rise of the East in world  historyBasingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
UniM INTERNET resource

 

Lewis, Mark Edward.China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty.Cambridge, MASS. Belknap, 2009

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Tackett, Nicolas.The destruction of the medieval Chinese aristocracyCambridge, Massachusetts London : Harvard University Asia Center, 2014
UniM Bail 951.01708621 TACK
 
Perry, John Curtis and Smith, Bardwell L. Essays on Tʻang society: the interplay of social, political and economic forces.Leiden : Brill, 1976.
UniM Bail High Use 951.017 ESSA OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Heng, Chye Kiang, Cities of aristocrats and bureaucrats : the development of medieval Chinese citiesHonolulu : University of Hawai’i Press, c1999.
UniM Bail High Use 307.760951 HENG OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
Graff, David. “The sword and the brush: military specialisation and career patterns in TangChina, 618-907”. War & Society 18/2 (Oct 2000), pp. 9-22.
 
Xiong, Victor C. “The land-tenure system of TangChina. A study of the equal-field system and the Turfan documents”.T’oung Pao 85/4-5 (1999), pp. 328-390.
 
Herbert, P.A. “Tang Dynasty objections to centralised civil service selection”. Papers on Far Eastern History 33 (Mar 1986), pp. 81-112.
 
Barfield, Thomas J. “China’s northern frontier during the T’ang dynasty”. In: Kasinec, Wendy F. and Polushin, Michael A., eds. Expanding empires: cultural interaction and exchange in world societies from ancient to early modern times. Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2002, pp.143-155.
 
Pan, Yihong. “Marriage alliances and Chinese princesses in international politics from Han through T’ang”.Asia Major 3rd series, 10/1-2 (1997), pp. 95-131.
 
Twitchett, Denis. “How to be an emperor: T’ang T’ai-tsung’s vision of his role”. Asia Major 3rd series, 9/1-2 (1996), pp. 1-102.
 
Skaff, Jonathan Karam. “Survival in the frontier zone: comparative perspectives on identity and political allegiance in China’s Inner Asian borderlands during the Sui-Tang dynastic tradition (617-630)”. Journal of World History 15/2 (Jun 2004), pp. 117-153.
 
Wright, David Curtis. “A Chinese princess bride’s life and activism among the eastern Turks, 580-593 CE”.Journal of Asian History 45 (nos.1-2 2011)Pages: 39-48
 
Wang, Zhenping. “Ideas concerning diplomacy and foreign policy under the Tang emperors Gaozu and Taizong”.Asia Major 3rd series, 22/1 (2009), pp. 239-285.
 
Skaff, Jonathan. “Loyalties divided: the question of ethnicity in the Tang-Turgish conflict of 708-709”. Early Medieval China 13-14/2 (2008), pp. 171-190.
 
Skaff, Jonathan Karam. “Barbarians at the gates? The Tang frontier military and the An Lushan Rebellion”.War & Society 18/2 (Oct 2000), pp. 23-35.
 
Tackett, Nicolas. “Great clansmen, bureaucrats, and local magnates: the structure and circulation of the elite in late-Tang”.Asia Major 3rd series, 21/2 2008), pp, 101-152.
 
Graff, David A. “Fang Guan’s chariots: scholarship, war, and character assassination in the middle Tang”. Asia Major 3rd series, 22, pt.1 (2009) 105-130
 
McMullen, David L. “The emperor, the princes, and the prefectures: a political analysis of the 'Puʻan decree of 756 and the fengjian issue”. T'ang Studies 32 (2014). Pp. 47-97.
 
McMullen, David. “The real Judge Dee: Ti Jen-chieh and the T’ang restoration of 705”.Asia Major3rd series, 6, pt.1 (1993) 1-81
 
Herbert, P.A. “Perceptions of provincial officialdom in early T’ang China”.Asia Major3rd ser., 2, pt. 1 (1989) 25-57
 
Pan, Yihong. “Integration of the nothern ethnic frontiers in Tang China”.Chinese Historical Review 19, no.1 (May 2012). Pages: 3-26
 
Yang, Shao-yun. “'What do barbarians know of gratitude?' The stereotype of barbarian perfidy and its uses in Tang foreign policy rhetoric”.T'ang Studies
no.31 (2013). Pages: 28-74
 
 
QUESTION 14
 
Historians have seen often seen China as being more open during the Tang dynasty than it was later on. What reasons do they give for this view?  How did the political, social and economic developments in the Tang era shape cultural phenomena?（写这个题目,与week6有关，也请参考其它week，请写手务必看subject guide）
 
Adshead, S.AM. T’ang China and World History New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 UniM INTERNET resource
 
Lewis, Mark Edward.China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty Cambridge, MASS. Belknap, 2009 UniM Bail High Use 951.017 LEWI   TWO HOUR LOAN
 
Perry, John Curtis and Smith, Bardwell L. Essays on Tʻang society: the interplay of social, political and economic forces.Leiden : Brill, 1976.
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Poceski, Mario. “Lay models of engagement with Chan teachings and practices among the literati in mid-Tang China”.  Journal of Chinese Religions no.35 (2007) Pages: 63-97
 
Bossler, Beverly. “Vocabularies of pleasure: categorizing female entertainers in the late Tang dynasty”.Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 72, no.1 (Jun 2012)Pages: 71-99
 
Chen, Jack W. “On Sui and Tang cities: introduction”.  T’ang Studies no.29 2011) Pages: 2-5
 
Chen, Jack W. “Social networks, court factions, ghosts, and killer snakes: reading Anyi Ward”.  T’ang Studies no.29 2011)Pages: 45-61
 
Feng, Linda Rui. “Chang’an and narratives of experience in Tang tales”.Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 71, no.1 (Jun 2011)Pages: 35-68
 
Feng, Linda Rui. “Negotiating vertical space: walls, vistas, and the topographical imagination”.  T’ang Studies no.29 2011) Pages: 27-44
 
Xiong, Victor Cunrui. “The Miscellaneous Record of the Reign of the Great Enterprise and Sui Luoyang”.T’ang Studies no.29 (2011) Pages: 6-26
 
Yan, Yaozhong; Keller, Jeffrey, tr. “Buddhist discipline and the family life of Tang women”.Chinese Studies in History 45, no.4 (Sum 2012)Pages: 24-42
 
Yue, Hong. “Romantic identity in the funerary inscriptions (muzhi) of Tang China”.Asia Major 3rd series, 25, pt.1 (2012) Pages: 33-62
 
Ditter, Alexei. “Conceptions of urban space in Duan Chengshi’s ‘Record of Monasteries and Stupas’”
T’ang Studies no.29 (2011)Pages: 62-83
 
Yang, Xiaoshan. “Li Deyu’s Pingquan villa: forming an emblem from the Tang to the Song”.  Asia Major 3rd series, 17, pt.2 (2004) Pages: 45-88
 
Hong, Yue. “A structural study of ninth-century anecdotes on ‘original events’”.T’ang Studies no.26 (2008) Pages: 65-83
 
 
QUESTION 15
 
Some scholars see the Tang dynasty as the high point of Chinese Buddhism. Others see it as the high point of Daoism. Others see it as a time when Confucianism re-established itself.  Others see it as a time of cultural eclecticism and hybridity.  Which viewpoint do you think is most accurate?
 
Dudbridge, Glen. Religious experience and lay society in T’ang China : a reading of Tai Fu’s Kuang-i chi Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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Kohn, Livia.Monastic life in medieval Daoism: a cross-cultural perspective. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, c2003.
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Barrett, Timothy Hugh.Taoism under the T’ang : religion & empire during the golden age of Chinese history London : Wellsweep, 1996
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Weinstein, Stanley.Buddhism under the T’ang.Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
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Perry, John Curtis and Smith, Bardwell L. Essays on Tʻang society: the interplay of social, political and economic forces.Leiden : Brill, 1976.
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Twitchett, Denis Crispin The writing of official history under the Tʻang..
Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1992
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Chiu-Duke, Josephine.To rebuild the empire: Lu Chih’s Confucian pragmatist approach to the mid-T’ang predicament.Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2000.
UniM Baill Res  951.017 CHIU   OVERNIGHT LOAN
 
McMullen, David. State and scholars in T`ang China.Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988
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DeBlasi, Anthony. Reform in the balance: the defense of literary culture in mid-Tang China.Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
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Hartman, Charles. Han Yü and the T`ang search for unity. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1986.
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Ch`en, Jo-shui.Liu Tsung-yüan and intellectual change in T’ang China, 773-819. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992
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DeBlasi, Anthony. “Striving for completeness: Quan Deyu and the evolution of the Tang intellectual mainstream”. HarvardJournal of Asiatic Studies 61/1 (Jun 2001), pp, 5-36.
 
Nienhauser, William H., Jr. “Han Yu, Liu Tsung-yuan and boundaries of literati piety”. Journal of Chinese Religions 19 (Fall 1991), pp. 75-104.
 
Chen, Jo-Shui. “Culture as identity during the T’ang-Sung transition: the Ch’ing-ho Ts’uis and Po-ling Ts’uis”. Asia Major 3rd series, 9, pts.1-2 (1996) 103-138
 
Barrett, T.H. “The emergence of the Taoist papacy in the T’ang dynasty”. Asia Major3rd series, 7, pt.1 (1994) 89-106
 
Yue, Hong. “Romantic identity in the funerary inscriptions (muzhi) of Tang China”Asia Major 3rd series, 25, pt.1 (2012) Pages: 33-62
 
Ditter, Alexei. “The commerce of commemoration: commissioned muzhiming in the mid-to late Tang. T'ang Studies 32 (2014). Pp. 21-46.
 
Woolley, Nathan. “The many boats to Yangzhou: purpose and variation in religious records of the Tang”. Asia Major 3rd series, 26, pt.2 (2013). Pages: 59-88
 
Wong, Kwok-Yiu. “The mid-Tang scholar-monk Shenqing and his Beishan lu”. Monumenta Serica 63, no.1 (2015). Pp. 32-78.
 
Heirman, Ann. “Buddhist nuns through the eyes of leading early Tang masters”. ChineseHistorical Review 22, no.1 (May 2015). Pp. 31-51.
 
Jia, Jinhua. “Longevity technique and medical theory: the legacy of the Tang Daoist priestess-physician Hu Yin”. Monumenta Serica 63, no.1 (2015). Pp. 1-31.



QUESTION 16
 
 
Chinese histories of literature often divide the Tang into four periods, resembling spring, summer, autumn and winter?  Do you think this is a good way to divide the Tang or are the differences between individual poets more important than the idea of a succession of epochs?
 (Make sure you use secondary scholarship as well as primary sources when answering this question. Secondary scholarship gives scholarly analysis of the issues; primary sources are the original materials from the period – in this case, they are translations of poems).
 
 
OR
 
 
Do you think that the high regard in which Tang literature is held is a result of the fundamental openness of Chinese society at this time, or could it be the result of other factors, such as the dramatic contrasts between the power and unity of the early Tang, the upheaval of the An Lushan rebellion and the decentralized world of the late Tang, which means that poetry had to cover a very wide range of experiences and emotions?
(Make sure you use secondary scholarship as well as primary sources when answering this question. Secondary scholarship gives scholarly analysis of the issues; primary sources are the original materials from the period – in this case, they are translations of poems).
 
SECONDARY ACADEMIC WORKS
 
Hung, William. Tu Fu, China’s Greatest Poet. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952.
UniM Baill 895.11 T883.H
UniM Baill 895.11 T883.H
UniM Store Q4244
 
Owen, Stephen, The end of the Chinese ‘Middle ages’: essays in Mid-Tang literary culture Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.
UniM Baill 895.1109003 OWEN
 
Wu, Ching-hsiung The four seasons of T`ang poetry. Rutland, Vt., C. E. Tuttle Co. [1972]
VicColArts Book 895.1108 /0001 Wu
 
Wagner, Marsha.The lotus boat: the origins of Chinese tz`u poetry in T`ang popular culture.New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.
UniM Baill 895.1104 WAGN
 
Waley, Arthur.  The life and times of Po Chü-i, 772-846 A.D. London: Allen & Unwin, 1949.
UniM Baill 895.11 P142.W
UniM Baill 895.11 P142.W  UniM Baill 895.11 P142.W
 
Waley, Arthur.  The poetry and career of Li Po, 701-762 A.D. London: Allen & Unwin, 1950.
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South, Margaret T.  Li Ho: a scholar-official of the Yuan-ho period (806-821). Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1967.
UniM ERC AB 895.11 L693.s
 
Owen, Stephen  The great age of Chinese poetry: the High T’ang. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, c1981.
UniM Baill 895.113 OWEN
 
Kroll, Paul W., Meng Hao-Jan. Boston: Twayne, 1981.
UniM Baill 895.113 MENG/KROL
 
Schafer, Edward H. Mirages on the sea of time: the Taoist poetry of Ts`ao T`ang. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1985.
UniM Baill 895.113 TSAO/SCHA
 
Wong, Yoon Wah. Ssu-K’ung T’u: a poet-critic of the T’ang. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1976.
UniM ERC B 895.113 SSUKUNG/WONG
 
Owen, Stephen. The poetry of Meng Chiao and Han Yu. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975.
UniM Baill 895.11308 MENG/OWEN
 
Wu, Fusheng, The poetics of decadence: Chinese poetry of the Southern dynasties and late Tang periods. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998.
UniM Baill 895.11309 WU
 
Wei, Chuang, (John Timothy Wixted, trans.).The song-poetry of Wei Chuang (836-910 A.D.). Tempe, Ariz.: Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University, 1979.
UniM Baill 895.113 WEI
 
Wagner, Marsha L. Wang Wei.Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981.
UniM Baill 895.113 WANG/WAGN
 
Yu, Pauline.The poetry of Wang Wei: new translations and contemporary. Pauline Yu. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1980.
UniM Baill 895.113 WANG
UniM ERC B 895.113 WANG
 
 Li, Ho (Li He) (trans. J. D. Frodsham).Goddesses, ghosts, and demons: the collected poems of Li He (Li Chang-ji, 790-816). San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983.
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UniM Baill 895.113 LI
 
Chou, E. Shan (Eva Shan).Reconsidering Tu Fu: literary greatness and cultural context.Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
UniM Baill 895.113 CHOU
 
Yates, Robin D. S., Washing silk: the life and selected poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910). Cambridge, Mass: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1988
UniM Baill 895.113 WEI/YATE
 
Rouzer, Paul F. Writing another’s dream: the poetry of Wen Tingyun. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1993.
UniM Baill 895.113 WEN/ROUZ
 
Liu, James J. Y.  The poetry of Li Shang-yin; ninth-century baroque Chinese poet, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1969.
UniM Baill 895.113 LI/LIU
 
Owen, Stephen. “The formation of the Tang estate poem”.Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 55/1 (Jun 1995), pp. 39-59.
 
Hammond, Charles E. “Ultimate truths: Tang poetry as magical discourse”. Journal of Oriental Studies 29/1 (1991), pp. 19-44.
 
Adamek, Wendi. “The literary lives of nuns: poems inscribed on a memorial niche for the Tang nun Benxing”.  T’ang Studies no.27 (2009) Pages: 40-65


Cartelli, Mary Anne. “The gold-colored world: ‘euology on the holy regions of Mount Wutai’”.  T’ang Studies nos.23-24 (2005-2006) Pages: 1-45

Chan, Tim W. “The ‘ganyu’ of Chen Ziang: questions on the formation of a poetic genre”.  T’oung Pao 87, nos.1-3 (2001) Pages: 14-42

Chan, Timothy Wai Keung. “A tale of two worlds: the late Tang poetic presentation of the romance of the peach blossom font”.  T’oung Pao 94, nos.4-5 (2008) Pages: 209-245


Chan, Timothy Wai Keung. “The quest of Lord of the Great Dao: textual and literary exegeses of a Shangqing ‘register’ (HY 1378)”.  T’ang Studies no.26 (2008) Pages: 143-173


Chen, Jack W. “The writing of imperial poetry in medieval China”.  Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 65, no.1 (Jun 2005) Pages: 57-98

Chiang, Sing-Chen Lydia. “Poetry and fictionality in Tang records of anomalies”.T’ang Studies nos.23-24 (2005-2006) Pages: 91-117


Hartman, Charles. “Du Fu in the poetry standards (shige) and the origins of the earliest Du Fu commentary”.  T’ang Studies no.28 (2010) Pages: 61-76

Holton, Brian. “Du Fu in autumn: a poem and a provocation”.  Renditions no.74 (Fall 2010) Pages: 8-32


Ji, Hao. “Confronting the past: Jin Shengtan’s commentaries on Du Fu’s poems”.  Ming Studies no.64 (Sep 2012) Pages: 63-95

Jia, Jinhua. “The Yaochi ji and three Daoist priestess-poets in Tang China”.Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China 13, no.2 (2011) Pages: 205-243
Kroll, Paul W. “The life and writings of Xu Hui (627-650), worthy consort, at the early Tang court”.  Asia Major 3rd series, 22, pt.2 (2009) Pages: 35-64

Kroll, Paul W. “The road to Shu, from Zhang Zai to Li Bo”.  Early Medieval China 10-11, pt.1 (2004) Pages: 227-254


Lien, Y. Edmund. “The moral high ground: two admonitory fu by Liu Zongyuan”.  T’ang Studies nos.23-24 (2005-2006) Pages: 169-186
Liu, Ning. “Is Li Bai a romanticist? Understanding an old poet through a new concept”.  Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 5, no.1 (Mar 2011) Pages: 90-114


Warner, Ding Xiang. “‘A splendid patrimony’: Wang Bo and the development of a new poetic decorum in early Tang China” T’oung Pao 98, nos.1-3 (2012) Pages: 113-144

Ma, Zili; Tang, Jun, tr. “The jian bureaucracy and mid-Tang literature”.Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 2, no.1 (Mar 2008) Pages: 91-116 
McMullen, David. “Recollection without tranquility: Du Fu, the imperial gardens, and the state”.  Asia Major
3rd series, 14, pt.2 (2001) Pages: 189-252

Owen, Stephen. “A Tang version of Du Fu: the Tangshi Leixuan”.  T’ang Studies 25 (2007) Pages: 57-90

Rouzer, Paul. “Du Fu and the failure of lyric”.Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 33 (Dec 2011) Pages: 27-53

Shields, Anna M. “Remembering when: the uses of nostalgia in the poetry of Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen”. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 66, no.2 (Dec 2006) Pages: 321-361
Wang, Ao.  “Poetry matters: interpretative community, pailü, and ‘Yingying zhuan’”. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 71, no.1 (Jun 2011) Pages: 1-34

Wang, Jing. “From immortality to mortality: images of Tang courtesans in verse, painting, and anecdote”. Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 6, no.2 (Jun 2012) Pages: 277-293


Warner, Ding Xiang. “‘A splendid patrimony’: Wang Bo and the development of a new poetic decorum in early Tang China”.  T’oung Pao 98, nos.1-3 (2012) Pages: 113-144

Warner, Ding Xiang. “The two voices of Wangchuan ji: poetic exchange between Wang Wei and Pei Di”. Early Medieval China 10-11, pt.2 (2005) Pages: 57-72
 
Wu, Shuling. “The development of poetry helped by ancient postal service in the Tang dynasty”. Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 4, no.4 (Dec 2010) Pages: 553-577

Yang, Xiaoshan. “Li Deyu’s Pingquan villa: forming an emblem from the Tang to the Song”.  Asia Major 3rd series, 17, pt.2 (2004) Pages: 45-88

Zhang, Bowei; Lu, Kanghua, tr. “On the standardization of poetry writing in the Tang dynasty”.  Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 4, no.1 (Mar 2010) Pages: 55-92
Zhang, Songjian. “One poet, four faces: the invention of Tu Fu in modern Chinese poetry; tr. by the author”. Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 5, no.2 (Jun 2011) Pages: 179-203

Zhou, Xunchu; Wu, Zhenglan, tr. “Li Bai and Qiang culture”. Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 2, no.1 (Mar 2008) Pages: 64-9
Chan, Timothy Wai Keung. “Dedication and identification in Wang Bo’s compositions on the Gallery of Prince Teng”.Monumenta Serica 50 (2002) Pages: 216-255
Williams, Nicholas Morrow. “The taste of the ocean: Jiaoran's theory of poetry”. T'ang Studies no.31 (2013). Pages: 1-27
 
He, Jianjun. “The dangers of the Qinling Mountain Road: a reading of Han Yu's Languan poem”. Monumenta Serica 61 (2013). Pages: 35-49
 
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Li Po and Tu Fu (trans. J.P. Seaton and James Cryer). Bright moon, perching bird: poems. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1987
UniM Baill 895.11308 BRIG
 
Cooper, Arthur R. V. (trans). Li Po and Tu Fu. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1973.
UniM Baill 895.11308 COOP
UniM ERC  895.11308 COO
 
Ho, Minfong (trans). Maples in the mist: children’s poems from the Tang Dynasty.New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, c1996.
UniM ERC TB f 895.11308 MAPL
 
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Wang, Wei (translated by G. W. Robinson).Poems of Wang Wei. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1973.
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Tobias, Arthur, James Sanford and J.P. Seaton.The view from Cold Mountain: poems of Han-shan and Shih-te. Fredonia, N.Y.: White Pine Press, 1987.
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Davis, A. R. Tu Fu. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1971.
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Pai, Chü-i, (David Hinton, trans).The selected poems of Po Chü-I.York: New Directions Pub. Corp.,1999.
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Meng, Chiao (David Hinton, trans).The late poems of Meng Chiao.Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1996.
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McCraw, David R. Du Fu’s laments from the South. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992.
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