Selected essays on court culture in cross-cultural perspective
By: edited by Lin Yaofu
Contributors: Comparative Court Cultures in Cross-Cultural Perspective (1997 : National Taiwan University)
Publisher: National Taiwan University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Tapei, Taiwan
Language: eng; chi
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Courts and courtiers; Congresses; Court and courtiers; Civilization; Social life and customs; Medieval Civilization; Arts
Other titles: Essays on court culture in cross-cultural perspective; Court culture in cross-cultural perspective
Notes: Cover title.

Essays originally presented at the conference Comparative Court Cultures in Cross-Cultural Perspective held at National Taiwan University, Aug. 25-27, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references.

In English with some text in Chinese.
Table of contents: title: The court of medieval Champagne and the economics of desire / Eugene Vance; title: The emperor sets the pace : court and consumption in the eastern capital of the northern Song during the reign of Huizong / Stephen H. West; title: Criticism of the court in Han dynasty literature / David R. Knechtges; title: Sex, politics, and morality at the Wei (220-265) court / Robert Joe Cutter; title: The king's anger : emotion and politics at the court of Edward III / Scott Linton Waugh; title: Emperor Li Hou-chu as a calligrapher, painter, and collector / Pao-chen Chen; title: Productive antipathies in court service and painting in northern Song dynasty China / Ronald Egan; title: Poetry of palace plaint of the Tang : its potential and limitation / Kuo-ying Wang; title: Court culture, conventional wisdom, and the sources of Japanese zen / Robert Borgen; title: Political drama and the Elizabethan court / Francis K. H. So.