Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Chronological Contents xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. A Note on the Translations xvii
6. Abbreviations xix
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I. The North And The South
9. Introduction 11
10. 1. Return To The North? 17
11. 2. The Disputation at Pengcheng 32
12. 3. Between Imitation and Mockery 60
13. 4. Literary Imagination of the North and South 77
14. PART II. Governing Mechanisms and Social Reality
15. Introduction 89
16. 5. Managing Locality in Early Medieval China 95
17. 6. Classical Scholarship in the Shu Region 108
18. 7. Ranking Men and Assessing Talent 125
19. 8. On Land and Wealth 147
20. 9. Crime and Punishment 156
21. 10. Marriage and Social Status 166
22. 11. Religion and Society on the Silk Road 176
23. PART III. Cultural Capital
24. Introduction 195
25. 12. The Art of Discourse 201
26. 13. Poetry on the Mysterious 230
27. 14. The Art of Poetry Writing 245
28. 15. Six Poems from a Liang Dynasty Princely Court 256
29. 16. Pei Ziye’s “Discourse on Insect Carving” 267
30. 17. Classifying the Literary Tradition 274
31. 18. Zhong Rong’s Preface to Grades of the Poets 287
32. 19. Book Collecting and Cataloging in the Age of Manuscript Culture 307
33. PART IV. Imaging Self and Other
34. Introduction 325
35. 20. Biographies of Recluses 333
36. 21. Classifications of People and Conduct 350
37. 22. The Literary Community at the Court of the Liang Crown Prince 370
38. 23. Self-Narration 382
39. 24. On Political and Personal Fate 388
40. 25. The Shadow Image in the Cave 405
41. PART V. Everyday Life
42. Introduction 429
43. 26. Dietary Habits 447
44. 27. The Epitaph of a Third-Century Wet Nurse, Xu Yi 458
45. 28. Festival and Ritual Calendar 468
46. 29. Custom and Society 494
47. 30. Adoption and Motherhood 511
48. 31. Estate Culture in Early Medieval China 530
49. PART VI. Relations with the Unseen World
50. Introduction 539
51. 32. Biographies of Eight Autocremators and Huijiao’s “Critical Evaluation” 543
52. 33. Divine Instructions for an Official 561
53. 34. Tales of Strange Events 576
54. 35. Texts for Stabilizing Tombs 592
55. 36. Reciting Scriptures to Move the Spirits 613
56. 37. Confucian Views of the Supernatural 640
57. 38. Encounters in Mountains 652
58. Contributors 683
59. Permissions 687
60. Index 689