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  | | The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (1000BCE-900CE) (OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES) by Wiebke Denecke, Wai-Yee Li, Xiaofei Tian Paperback, 626 Pages, Published 2020 by Oxford Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-19-005318-5, ISBN: 0-19-005318-6 "This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century BCE through a conceptual framework centered on textual production and transmission." |
 | | The Halberd at Red Cliff Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series) by Xiaofei Tian Hardcover, 470 Pages, Published 2018 by Harvard University Asia Center ISBN-13: 978-0-674-97703-7, ISBN: 0-674-97703-3 "The turn of the third century CE--known as the Jian'an era or Three Kingdoms period--holds double significance for the Chinese cultural tradition. Its writings laid the foundation of classical poetry and literary criticism. Its historical personages and events have also inspired works of poetry, fiction, drama, film, and art throughout Chinese history, including Internet fantasy literature today. There is a vast body of secondary litera ..." |
 | | The World of a Tiny Insect A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and Its Aftermath by Zhang Daye, Xiaofei Tian Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-99318-8, ISBN: 0-295-99318-9 ""From the cry of a tiny insect, one can hear the sound of a vast world. . . ."So begins Zhang Daye's preface to The World of a Tiny Insect, his haunting memoir of war and its aftermath. In 1861, when China's devastating Taiping rebellion began, Zhang was seven years old. The Taiping rebel army occupied Shaoxing, his hometown, and for the next two years, he hid from Taiping soldiers, local bandits, and imperial troops and witnessed grues ..." |
 | | Family Instructions for the Yan Clan and Other Works by Yan Zhitui by Xiaofei Tian, Paul Kroll Hardcover, 500 Pages, Published 2021 by De Gruyter, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-5015-1140-0, ISBN: 1-5015-1140-8 "This is a new, accurate translation into English, with critical introduction and notes and based on recent scholarship, of Yan Zhitui's (531-590s) complete literary works, including his famous Family Instructions, his self-annotated poetic ..." |
 | | Visionary Journeys Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series) by Xiaofei Tian Hardcover, 398 Pages, Published 2012 by Harvard University Asia Center ISBN-13: 978-0-674-06252-8, ISBN: 0-674-06252-3 "This book explores two important moments of dislocation in Chinese history, the early medieval period (317–589 CE) and the nineteenth century. Tian juxtaposes a rich array of materials from these two periods in comparative study, linking these historical moments in their unprecedented interactions, and intense fascination, with foreign cultures." |
 | | Beacon Fire and Shooting Star The Literary Culture of the Liang (502-557) (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series) by Xiaofei Tian Hardcover, 450 Pages, Published 2007 by Harvard University Asia Center ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02602-5, ISBN: 0-674-02602-0 " The Liang dynasty (502-557) is one of the most brilliant and creative periods in Chinese history and one of the most underestimated and misunderstood. Under the Liang, literary activities, such as writing, editing, anthologizing, and cataloguing, were pursued on an unprecedented scale, yet the works of this era are often dismissed as "decadent" and no more than a shallow prelude to the glories of the Tang. This book is devoted to con ..." |
 | | Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture(Reprint) The Record of a Dusty Table (A China Program Book) by Preceptor Xiaofei Tian Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-99134-4, ISBN: 0-295-99134-8 "Winner of a 2006 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title AwardAs medieval Chinese manuscripts were copied and recopied through the centuries, both mistakes and deliberate editorial changes were introduced, thereby affecting readers' impressions of the author's intent. In Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture, Xiaofei Tian shows how readers not only experience authors but produce them by shaping texts to their interpretation. Tian exami ..." |
 | | The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature(1st Edition) by Xiaofei Tian, Wiebke Denecke, Wai-Yee Li, Oxford University Press Hardcover, 624 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-935659-1, ISBN: 0-19-935659-9 "This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century CE. It asks basic questions such as: How did reading and writing practices change over these two millennia? How did concepts of literature evolve? What were the factors that shaped literary production and textual transmission? How do traditional bibliographic categories, modern conceptions of genre, and litera ..." |
 | | The World of a Tiny Insect A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and Its Aftermath (Hardback) by Zhang Daye, Xiaofei Tian Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-99317-1, ISBN: 0-295-99317-0 ""From the cry of a tiny insect, one can hear the sound of a vast world. . . ."So begins Zhang Daye's preface to The World of a Tiny Insect, his haunting memoir of war and its aftermath. In 1861, when China's devastating Taiping rebellion began, Zhang was seven years old. The Taiping rebel army occupied Shaoxing, his hometown, and for the next two years, he hid from Taiping soldiers, local bandits, and imperial troops and witnessed grues ..." |
 | | Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture The Record of a Dusty Table (A China Studies Book) by Preceptor Xiaofei Tian, Xiao Fei Tian Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-98553-4, ISBN: 0-295-98553-4 "Winner of a 2006 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Award As medieval Chinese manuscripts were copied and recopied through the centuries, both mistakes and deliberate editorial changes were introduced, thereby affecting readers' impressions of the author's intent. In Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture, Xiaofei Tian shows how readers not only experience authors but produce them by shaping texts to their interpretation. Tian exa ..." |
 | | The Poetry of Ruan Ji and Xi Kang(1st Edition) by Ding Xiang Warner, Xiaofei Tian, Stephen Owen, Wendy Swartz, Ji Ruan, Kang Ji Hardcover, 500 Pages, Published 2017 by De Gruyter Mouton ISBN-13: 978-1-5015-1185-1, ISBN: 1-5015-1185-8 "Buch mit Leinen-EinbandThe poetry of Ruan Ji has been previously translated several times, with one fully scholarly translation of both the poetry and the Fu (poetic expositions). The present translation not only provides a facing page critical Chinese text, it addresses two problems that have been ignored or not adequately treated in earlier works. First, it traces the history of the current text. The rather serious problems with this ..." |
 | | Tao Yuanming & Manuscript Culture The Record of a Dusty Table (A China Studies Book) by Xiaofei Tian 328 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-80193-3, ISBN: 0-295-80193-X "fabrics, not food, and would not seem to be more susceptible to frost than garden crops” (Poetry of T'ao Ch'ien, 52). Hemp is in fact valued both for its use in making fabrics and for its oil-containing seeds. According to Needham, although hemp oil is not a very good cooking oil, it is excellent for oil lamps. Hemp can grow to six or eight meters high, and as an annual, will certainly die with the frost (Science and Civilization i ..." |
 | | The Halberd at Red Cliff Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms by Xiaofei Tian Published 2020 by Brill ISBN-13: 978-1-68417-092-0, ISBN: 1-68417-092-3 "Hu Hong # HÈ : “ Looking at Poems by the Seven Masters of Jian'an , ” 253–55 Hu Zeng T , 292 , 294–95 ... 770159 , 224n34 , 225–26 , 321 Jiang Yan , works of : “ Bronze Bird Performers , ” 223 ; “ Fu on Leaving My Hometown , ” 225–26n38 ..." |
 | | Library of Chinese Humanities Ser. The Poetry of Ruan Ji and Xi Kang by Ding Xiang Warner, Xiaofei Tian 412 Pages, Published 2017 by Walter De Gruyter Gmbh & Co Kg ISBN-13: 978-1-5015-0393-1, ISBN: 1-5015-0393-6 "Ding Xiang Warner, Xiaofei Tian. Wandering with Immortals 遊仙詩 7 16 I have adopted the Wu Manuscript variant yi 弃 in place of qi 棄. Most modern scholars take 弃 as an errant character for yi 异, which is glossed in Shuowen jiezi to mean ..." |
 | | The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (1000 BCE-900CE) by Wiebke Denecke, Wai-Yee Li, Xiaofei Tian 672 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-935660-7, ISBN: 0-19-935660-2 "is the title of Xue's collected writings; this, too, is difficult to ascertain. ... Nevertheless, Chen's memorial affords us a glimpse into the process of compiling a collection. ... The headings of the collection are mixed in nature: the classification does not seem to follow a consistent criterion, as some chapters are organized in terms of genre and content, such as “Military Instructions” or “Letters to Sun Quan,” whereas other ..." |
 | | Literary History in and beyond China Reading Text and World (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series) by Allen, Sarah M., Chen, Jack W., Tian, Xiaofei Hardcover, 302 Pages, Published 2023 by Harvard University Asia Center ISBN-13: 978-0-674-29127-0, ISBN: 0-674-29127-1 |
 | | The Poetry of Li He (Library of Chinese Humanities) by Robert Ashmore, Christopher Nugent Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2018 by Mouton De Gruyter ISBN-13: 978-1-5015-1329-9, ISBN: 1-5015-1329-X |
 | | The People's Republic of China at 60 An International Assessment by Sheena Chestnut, Timothy Cheek, Xiaocai Feng, Merle Goldman, Arthur Kleinman, Xiaoyuan Liu, Yuanli Liu, Dayong Niu, Jean Oi, Elisabeth Köll, Klaus Mühlhahn, David Shambaugh, Zhihua Shen, Michael Szonyi, Xiaofei Tian, Kuisong Yang, William C. Kirby, Barry R. Bloom, Paul A. Cohen, Mark C. Elliott, Chang-Tai Hung, Alastair Iain Johnston, Dwight H. Perkins, Elizabeth J. Perry, Robert S. Ross, Peter G. Rowe, Alan M. Wachman, Andrew G. Walder, Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Martin King Whyte, Sheena Cohen, Contributor-Paul..., Elisabeth Koell, Klaus Muehlhahn Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2011 by Harvard University Asia Center ISBN-13: 978-0-674-06064-7, ISBN: 0-674-06064-4 "In 2009, to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies convened a major conference to discuss the health and longevity of China’s ruling system and to consider a fundamental question: After three decades of internal strife and turmoil, followed by an era of reform, entrepreneurialism, and internationalization, is the PRC here for the dynastic long haul?Bringing together schol ..." |
 | | Reading Du Fu Nine Views (Hardback) by Xiaofei Tian Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2020 by Hong Kong University Press ISBN-13: 978-988-8528-44-8, ISBN: 988-8528-44-0 "It is not until 764 that Owen begins to document real recalcitrance to Du Fu's attempts to elevate his domestic affairs to imperial significance. Owen focuses his discussion on “Deck by the Water” (“Shui jian”水檻),9 a poem that describes Du Fu's ..." |
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