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In pursuit of the great peace : Han Dynasty classicism and the making of early medieval literati culture

Title
  1. In pursuit of the great peace : Han Dynasty classicism and the making of early medieval literati culture / Zhao Lu.
Published by
  1. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2019]
  2. ©2019
Author
  1. Zhao, Lu, 1985-

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Description
  1. xxi, 328 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "Through an examination of the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, Zhao Lu describes the transformation of literati culture that occurred during the Han Dynasty. Driven by anxiety over losing the mandate of Heaven, the imperial court encouraged classicism in order to establish the Great Peace and follow Heaven's will. But instead of treating the literati as puppets of competing and imagined lineages, Zhao uses sociological methods to reconstruct their daily lives and to show how they created their own thought by adopting, modifying, and opposing the work of their contemporaries and predecessors. The literati who served as bureaucrats in the first century BCE gradually became classicists who depended on social networking as they traveled to study the classics. By the second century CE, classicism had dissolved in this traveling culture and the literari began to expand the corpus of knowledge beyond the accepted canon. Thus, far from being static, classicism in Han China was full of innovation, and ultimately gave birth to both literary writing and religious Daoism"--
Series statement
  1. SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
Uniform title
  1. SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Subject
  1. China
  2. Classicism
  3. History
  4. 221 B.C.-960 A.D
  5. China > Intellectual life > 221 B.C.-960 A.D
  6. Intellectual life
  7. Classicism > China > History
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Call number
  1. JFE 20-44
Note
  1. Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Pennsylvania, 2013.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-312) and index.
Author
  1. Zhao, Lu, 1985- author.
Title
  1. In pursuit of the great peace : Han Dynasty classicism and the making of early medieval literati culture / Zhao Lu.
Publisher
  1. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2019]
Copyright date
  1. ©2019
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
  2. SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-312) and index.
Chronological term
  1. 221 B.C.-960 A.D.
LCCN
  1. 2018035997
Other standard identifier
  1. 40029229710
ISBN
  1. 9781438474915 (hardcover)
  2. 1438474911 (hardcover)
  3. 9781438474939 electronic book
Research call number
  1. JFE 20-44
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