TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richter,Antje
TI  - Letters and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China
T2  - Modern Language Initiative Bks
SN  - 9780295804668
AV  - MLI 
U1  - 808.6/0951 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Letter writing, Chinese
KW  - Chinese letters -- History and criticism
KW  - Chinese literature -- 220-589 -- History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Epistolary Research in Chinese Studies and Beyond -- Textual Sources of Early Medieval Chinese Letter Writing -- The Organization of This Book -- Remarks on Translation -- Part One. Materials and Concepts of Letter Writing -- 1. Materiality and Terminology -- The Spread of Paper -- Calligraphy and Letter Writing -- Writers and Transporters of Letters -- Terminology -- The Genre of Personal Letters -- 2. Letters and Literary Thought -- Cao Pi's "Disquisitions on Literature" on Letters as a Genre -- The Absence of Letters in Lu Ji's "Rhapsody on Literature" -- Liu Xie's The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons on Letters -- Letters in Xiao Tong's Selections of Refined Literature -- Letters about Literary Thought -- Part Two. Epistolary Conventions and Literary Individuality -- 3. Structures and Phrases -- Letter Opening -- Letter Body -- Letter Closing -- Terms of Address and Self-Designation -- 4. Topoi -- Lamenting Separation -- Letters as Substitutes for Face-to-Face Conversation -- The Limits of Writing and Language -- 5. Normativity and Authenticity -- Letter-Writing Guides -- Expressing Individuality within the Bounds of Convention -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary-Index
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