One Who Knows Me: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China

by Anna M. Shields

The friendships of writers of the mid-Tang era (780s-820s)--between literary giants like Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen, Han Yu and Meng Jiao, Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi--became famous through the many texts they wrote to and about one another. What inspired mid-Tang literati to write about their friendships with such zeal? And how did these writings influence Tang literary culture more broadly? In One Who Knows Me , the first book to delve into friendship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674504372
• ISBN13: 9780674504370
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 425 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.5"