Memory in Medieval China : Text, Ritual, and Community.

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Robert Ford Campany and Wendy Swartz -- Chapter 1 -- Artful Remembrance: Reading, Writing, and Reconstructing the Fallen State in Lu Ji's "Bian wang" -- Meow Hui Goh -- Chapter 2 -- Intertextuality and Cultural Memory in Early Medieval China: Jiang Yan's Imitations of Nearly Lost and Lost Writers -- Wendy Swartz -- Chapter 3 -- On Mourning and Sincerity in the Li ji and the Shishuo xinyu -- Jack W. Chen -- Chapter 4 -- "Making Friends with the Men of the Past": Literati Identity and Literary Remembering in Early Medieval China -- Ping Wang -- Chapter 5 -- Yu Xin's "Memory Palace": Writing Trauma and Violence in Early Medieval Chinese Aulic Poetry -- Xiaofei Tian -- Chapter 6 -- Structured Gaps: The Qianzi wen and Its Paratexts as Mnemotechnics -- Christopher M.B. Nugent -- Chapter 7 -- Genre and the Construction of Memory: A Case Study of Quan Deyu's 權德 (759-818) Funerary Writings for Zhang Jian 張 (744-804) -- Alexei Kamran Ditter -- Chapter 8 -- Figments of Memory: "Xu Yunfeng" and the Invention of a Historical Moment -- Sarah M. Allen -- Chapter 9 -- The Mastering Voice: Text and Aurality in the Ninth-century Mediascape -- Robert Ashmore -- Index.

Memory in Medieval China explores memory as performed in various genres of writing, from poetry to anecdotes, from history to tomb epitaphs, thereby illuminating ways in which the memory of persons, events, dynasties, and literary styles was constructed and revised.

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