01936    a2200325   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001300136072001500149072001600164072001600180072001400196072001500210072001400225072001400239072001400253072002100267072002100288100001800309245006300327250000600390260003200396300001000428520115900438999001301597113837532220250317100358.0250312042019GB                   eng    a9781138375321  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 51.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aN2thema7 aNHF2thema7 aDSBB2thema7 aNHTB2thema7 a3K2bisac7 aHBLC12bic7 aHBJF2bic7 aDSBB2bic7 aHBTB2bic7 aHIS0000002bisac7 a895.113092bisac1 aPaul W. Kroll10aEssays in Medieval Chinese Literature and Cultural History  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20190103  a362 p  bThis 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.  c956d956