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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"medieval China"”.
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Navigating the Smellscape of Medieval China
Smell mattered in medieval China. Through the sense of smell, people navigated the natural and social world, structured human-divine relationships. Medieval Chinese texts are replete with references to smells of people, things, and places. Mediated through the minds of their recorders, olfactory …
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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
… 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 productions …
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六朝志怪小说“厉鬼成神”故事研究 = A STUDY OF THE PHENOMENON OF GHOSTS WHO ACQUIRED GODHOOD FOLLOWING UNNATURAL DEATHS: ZHIGUAI TALES FROM THE SIX DYNASTIES
… and their interaction with common people in medieval China. The ligui ghosts can be divided into two categories according to gender, males and female always acquired godhood through different processes, males retained godhood because of political reasons while females mostly because of family …
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Gifts from Afar: The Creation of an Imperial Lapdog in Tang–Song China
… an adapted framework for identifying pets in medieval China, but the formation of a definitive corpus of lapdog references from this timeframe closely defines what a lapdog was and what it did, moving beyond prior cursory research into these diminutive trick-dogs. Analysis of how humans talked …
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Elegies for Empire: The Poetics of Memory in the Late Work of Du Fu (712-770)
… first to write in the twilight of the Chinese medieval period. His most prescient anticipation of mid-Tang concerns was his restless preoccupation with memory and its mediations, which drove his prolific output in Kuizhou. For Du Fu, memory held the promise of salvaging and creatively …
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Producing and Using Codices in Tenth Century Dunhuang
… near the oasis town of Dunhuang 敦煌 in northwest China. This dissertation, based on some 450 codices recovered from this cave, examines the codex culture in tenth century Dunhuang and explores the early history of the codex in the Sinophone world. Inspired by western codicology and palaeography, …