01935 a2200325 4500 1138375322 20250317100358.0 250312042019GB eng 9781138375321 Taylor & Francis GBP 51.99 BB 01 eng N thema NHF thema DSBB thema NHTB thema 3K bisac HBLC1 bic HBJF bic DSBB bic HBTB bic HIS000000 bisac 895.11309 bisac Paul W. Kroll Essays in Medieval Chinese Literature and Cultural History 1 Oxford Routledge 20190103 362 p This is one of a pair of volumes by Paul Kroll (the companion volume deals with medieval Taoism and the poetry of Li Po). Collecting eleven essays by this leading scholar of Chinese poetry, the volume presents a selection of studies devoted to the medieval period, centering especially on the T'ang dynasty. It opens with the author's famous articles on the dancing horses of T'ang, on the emperor Hsüan Tsung's abandonment of his capital and forced execution of his prized consort, and on poems relating to the holy mountain T'ai Shan (with special attention to Li Po). Following these are detailed examinations of landscape and mountain imagery in the poetry of the "High T'ang" period in the mid-8th century, and of an extraordinary attempt made in the mid-9th-century to recall in verse and anecdote the great days of the High T'ang. The second section of the book includes two articles on birds (notably the kingfisher and the egret) in medieval poetry, and four of Kroll's influential studies focusing on the verse-form known as the fu or "rhapsody," especially drawing from the 3rd-century poet Ts'ao Chih and the 7th-century poet Lu Chao-lin. 956 956