Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. Chinese Dynasties and Various Rulers viii
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. 2. The Transformation of the Shih 32
7. 3. Scholarship and Literary Composition at the Early Tang Court 76
8. 4. Scholarship and Literary Composition at the Early Tang Court 108
9. 5. Civil Policy and Literary Culture: The Beginnings of Sung Intellectual Culture 148
10. 6. Thinkers and Then Writers: Intellectual Trends in the Mid-Eleventh Century 176
11. 7. For Perfect Order: Wang An-shih and Ssu-ma Kuang 212
12. 8. Su Shih's Tao: Unity with Individuality 254
13. 9. Ch'eng I and the New Culture of Tao-hsueh 300
14. APPENDIX. The Ch'ao Family of the Northern and Southern Sung 345
15. Notes 357
16. Bibliography 449
17. Chinese Character List 483
18. Index 497