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The Oxford Handbook of C L A S S I C A L C H I N E S E L I T E R AT U R E ( 1 0 0 0 bce–9 0 0   ce) The Oxford Handbook of CLASSICAL CHINESE LITERATURE 1000 bce–9 00 ce) ( Edited by WIEBKE DENECKE, WAI- YEE LI, and XIAOFEI TIAN 1 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2017 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Denecke, Wiebke editor. | Li, Wai-Yee editor. | Tian, Xiaofei, 1971-editor. Title: The Oxford handbook of classical Chinese literature (1000 bce– 900 ce) / edited by Wiebke Denecke, Wai-Yee Li, and Xiaofei Tian. Description: New York : Oxford University Press, 2017. Identifiers: LCCN 2016036926 | ISBN 9780199356591 (hardback) | ISBN 9780199356614 (online content) Subjects: LCSH: Chinese literature—221 B.C.-960 A.D.—History and criticism. Classification: LCC PL2283 .O94 2017 | DDC 895.109/002—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016036926 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America For our children Shira Li Bartov Rom Li Bartov George Chengji Owen Simon Denecke- Spakovszky Felix Denecke- Spakovszky Contents Acknowledgments  xi Contributor List  xiii Timeline of Chinese Dynasties  xv SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION 1. Key Concepts of “Literature”  3 (Stephen Owen) 2. Periodization and Major Inflection Points  13 (Stephen Owen) SECTION TWO: BASICS OF LITERACY I. Technology and Media Editor’s Introduction (Xiaofei Tian)  27 3. The Chinese Writing System  31 (Imre Galambos) 4. Literary Media: Writing and Orality  46 (Christopher M. B. Nugent) 5. Manuscript Culture  61 (Christopher M. B. Nugent) 6. The Relationship of Calligraphy and Painting to Literature  76 (Ronald Egan) II. Institutions of Literary Culture Editor’s Introduction (Xiaofei Tian)  91 7. Education and the Examination System  95 (Rebecca Doran) viii Contents 8. Text and Commentary: The Early Tradition  112 (Michael Puett) 9. Text and Commentary in the Medieval Period  123 (Yu-y u Cheng) 10. Literary Learning: Encyclopedias and Epitomes  132 (Xiaofei Tian) 11. Libraries, Book Catalogues, Lost Writings  147 (Glen Dudbridge) SECTION THREE: LITERARY PRODUCTION I. Traditional Genre Spectrum Editor’s Introduction (Wai-y ee Li)  163 12. Classics (jing 經)  170 (David Schaberg) 13. Histories (shi 史)  184 (Stephen Durrant) 14. Masters (zi 子)  201 (Wiebke Denecke) 15. Collections (ji 集)  219 (Xiaofei Tian) II. Modern Perspectives on Genre Editor’s Introduction (Wai-y ee Li)  235 16. “Chinese Poetry”  241 (Paul Rouzer) 17. Elite versus Popular Literature  258 (Wilt L. Idema) 18. Narrative Genres  273 (Sarah M. Allen) Contents ix III. Collecting, Editing, Transmitting Editor’s Introduction (Xiaofei Tian)  288 19. Pre- Tang Anthologies and Anthologization  293 (David R. Knechtges) 20. Anthologies in the Tang  303 (Paul W. Kroll) 21. The Song Reception of Earlier Literature  316 (Stephen Owen) 22. Textual Transmission of Earlier Literature during the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties  325 (Wai- yee Li) IV. Literature and Metaliterature Editor’s Introduction (Wiebke Denecke)  342 23. Defenses of Literature/L iterary Thought/P oetics  347 (Paul Rouzer) 24. Concepts of Authorship  360 (Wai- yee Li) 25. Tradition Formation: Beginnings to Eastern Han  377 (Stephen Durrant) 26. Classicisms in Chinese Literary Culture: Six Dynasties through Tang  387 (Anna M. Shields) SECTION FOUR: MOMENTS, SITES, FIGURES Editor’s Introduction (Wai-y ee Li)  399 27. Moments  403 (Paula Varsano) 28. Sites I  424 (Jack Chen)

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This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century CE. It asks basic questions such as: How did reading and writing practices change over these two millennia? How did concepts of literature evolve? What were the factors that
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