The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20008295 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Wiebke Denecke (0009-0009-0051-9252, World Languages, Boston University), Wai-Yee Li (0000-0002-0608-9857, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University), Xiaofei Tian (0000-0002-3867-7629, Chinese Literature, Harvard University) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199356591.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2611726571 |
| ISBN | 9780199356591 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
This handbook of Classical Chinese literature from 1000 bce through 900 ce aims to provide a solid introduction to the field, inspire scholars in Chinese Studies to explore innovative conceptual frameworks and pedagogical approaches in the studying and teaching of classical Chinese literature, and facilitate a comparative dialogue with scholars of premodern East Asia and other classical and medieval literary traditions around the world. The handbook integrates issue-oriented, thematic, topical, and cross-cultural approaches to the classical Chinese literary heritage with historical perspectives. It introduces both literature and institutions of literary culture, in particular court culture and manuscript culture, which shaped early and medieval Chinese literary production. It problematizes the gap between traditional concepts and modern revisionary definitions of literary categories and fosters critical awareness of how this has shaped the transmission and reception of literature and literary history. It discusses both canonical works and works that fall between the cracks of modern disciplinary divisions of “philosophy,” “religion,” “history,” and “literature.” Adopting a thematic approach, it traces the trajectory of ideas and motifs articulated across different genres, periods, and cultural spheres and lays the groundwork for comparisons with other literary cultures. Finally, it places early and medieval China in its regional context by including chapters on translation, on cultural interactions with the Northwestern regions, and on the literatures produced in Korea, Japan, and Vietnam in Literary Chinese, recapturing the functioning of the East Asian Sinographic Sphere
Archaeology · Art · China · Chinese culture · Chinese literature · Classical Chinese · Context (archaeology) · Discipline · East Asia · Literary criticism · Literary science · Literature · Social science · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · History
The Political Economy of China's Imperial Examination System
The Tao of Julius Evola
The Birth Pangs of Globalizing Philosophy
Fiction as Supplement to History
Spacetime, connectivity, multipolarity, juxtaposition
Small Philology and Large Philology
Progress, Comparison, and the Nature of Literary History
Mid-Tang Exchange Poetry, the Kingdom of Parhae, and the Reception of Bai Juyi in Early Heian Japan, Part 1
Late Tang China and the World, 750–907 CE
The Zhuangzi as a Commentary on Kongzi
Decolonizing the origins of (pre)modern Japanese literature
Rhetoric and the Perception of the Sacred in Confucian Classics
Launching the Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature on the 250th Anniversary of the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries
| Citations per year | 1.63 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |