"The freshness of the authors' approaches . . . is salutary. . . . The collection is stimulating and valuable."—Joan Shelley Rubin, Journal of American History
Bronze vessels were the ultimate emblems of power in ancient China. Beginning in the twelfth century, the rediscovery of ancient bronzes as evidence of an earlier golden age led to a revival of...
Large 8vo. xi, 335 pp, acknowledgments, a note on transliteration, Introduction: A Model of Poetic Change, 1. A Rhetoric of Subversion; 2. Poetic Signs and Their Spheres; 3. An Open Literary Culture;...