Yang Xiong and the pleasures of reading and classical learning in China
By: by Michael Nylan
Series: American Oriental series -- v. 94
Publisher: American Oriental Society
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780940490321
Subjects: Books and reading; Knowledge and learning; History; Learning and scholarship
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Yang's life from the early sources; title: Playing with manuscripts: stages in an evolving manuscript culture; literacy, and Yang Xiong's intended readers; title: Playing with words: Yang's play with graphs and dialogues; Yang's pleasure theory as it relates to classical learning; title: At play with the ancients: philological matters; Yang the historian; background to the Haogu movement.