Immortals, festivals, and poetry in medieval China : studies in social and intellectual history
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Immortals, festivals, and poetry in medieval China : studies in social and intellectual history
(Collected studies series, CS623)
Ashgate, c1998
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The papers in this volume are concerned with the themes of religion, poetry and song in early medieval China. Religion is to the fore in the first two sections, dealing with Daoist immortals and their cult, as reflected in poetic works of the first three centuries AD. Also examined are the songs used in religious ceremonies and the origins and history of the cold food festival. The last group of articles includes a major study of the poems of Ji Kang (223-262) as well as other poetry of the 4th-5th centuries, and an analysis of the changing image of the merchant from the 4th to the 9th centuries.
Table of Contents
- Immortals: immortality-seeking in early Chinese poetry
- the Wang ziqiao stele
- Ts'ao Chih and the immortals
- from scepticism to belief in 3rd-century China. Festivals: the cold food festival in early medieval China
- songs for the gods - the poetry of popular religion in 5th-century China
- une fete chez Su Shih a Huang chou en 1082. Poetry: la poesie de Ji Kang
- folk ballads and the aristocracy
- Xie Lingyun et les paysans de Yongji
- the image of the merchant in medieval Chinese poetry.
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