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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"early medieval China"”.
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Learning from Maoshan: Temple Construction in Early Medieval China
… southeast of Nanjing, has been home to one of China's most influential Daoist temples. One of Maoshan's most famous patriarchs was Tao Hongjing (456-536 CE), a polymath whose wide range of interests included alchemy, genealogy, mapmaking, herbal medicine, and Daoist ritual. Scholarship on Tao …
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Play and Prestige: A Cultural History of Early Medieval China
… and carnivalisation of elite culture in early medieval China.
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Anthologizing Buddhists: A Study Of Avadana Narratives And The Communities That Read Them In Early Medieval China
… and reflects alternate idioms of Buddhism in early medieval China. I begin by investigating an avadāna narrative through the lens of Indian aesthetics of humor to illustrate the rhetorical function of the story. This approach shows that these narratives are carefully constructed literary …