Title: One Who Knows Me
Description: "Explores the literature of the mid-Tang to reveal the complex value that its writers discovered in friendship--as a rewarding social practice, a rich literary topic, a way to negotiate literati identity, and a path toward self-understanding. Shields traces the evolution of the performance of friendship through a wide range of genres, including letters, prefaces, exchange poetry, and funerary texts, and weaves elegant translations with close readings of these texts"--Provided by the publisher.
Subjects: Chinese literature, history and criticism, Friendship in literature, Authors, chinese, Chinese literature, History and criticism, Friendship, History, Chinese Authors, Relations with men