'This Culture of Ours'
This book traces the shared culture of the Chinese elite from the seventh to the twelfth centuries. The early T''ang definition of ''This Culture of Ours'' combined literary and scholarly traditions from the previous five centuries. The late Sung Neo-Confucian movement challenged that definition. The author argues that the Tang-Sung transition is best understood as a transition from a literary vie...
This book traces the shared culture of the Chinese elite from the seventh to the twelfth centuries. The early T''ang definition of ''This Culture of Ours'' combined literary and scholarly traditions from the previous five centuries. The late Sung Neo-Confucian movement challenged that definition. The author argues that the Tang-Sung transition is best understood as a transition from a literary vie...
