Memory in Medieval China: Text, Ritual, and Community

✍ Scribed by Wendy Swartz; Robert Ford Campany

Publisher: Brill
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 281
Series: Sinica Leidensia
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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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