Publication

2017-10-02 - Harvard University Asia Center

Language

English

Word Count

87,000 words, Guess

Page Count

348 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100674976959
  • ISBN-139780674976955
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016052197
  • OCLC Control Number972092972
  • Better World Books9780674976955
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCBL467.C66 2017
  • LCCBL467 .C66 2017

Description

"Traces the rise of poetry from eulogies in BCE excavated texts and outlines the evolution of musical performance within and away from the context of ancestor worship. Compares the rhetoric of bronze inscriptions with later uses of similar terms in newly discovered bamboo texts from the Warring States period"--

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