The poetics of sovereignty
Subtitle: on Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty
By: Jack W. Chen
Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series -- 71
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9780674056084
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reading the reign of Tang Taizong (r. 626-649); title: On sovereignty and representation; title: The reception of literature in Tang Taizong's court; title: The writing of imperial poetry in medieval China; title: The significance of court poetry; title: Palatial form and the rhapsodic imagination; title: On "The imperial capital poems": ritual sovereignty and imperial askesis.