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Author Chan, Timothy Wai Keung.

Title Considering the end : mortality in early medieval Chinese poetic representation / by Timothy Wai Keung Chan
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series Sinica leidensia, 0169-9563 ; v. 107
Sinica Leidensia ; v. 107
Contents Timeline; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: As the End Approaches; 1. Wang Yi on Integrity and Loyalty; 2. A Young Lady on Yellow Pongee Silk; 3. Ruan Ji on Apocalypse; 4. Tao Qian on His Deathbed; 5. Xie Lingyun on Awakenin; 6. Composed on the Verge of Unnatural Death; 7. Epilogue: The Fisherman in Reclusion; Works Cited; Index
Summary This book focuses on the representation of human mortality in medieval Chinese literature. This theme is observed and reconstructed through analysis of the work of eminent writers of the period, texts that have never been examined from an eschatological perspective
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English, with some Chinese
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Subject Chinese poetry -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D. -- History and criticism
Mortality in literature.
Death in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Chinese poetry
Death in literature
Mortality in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004229020
9004229027