The Poetics of Sovereignty: On Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty

ISBN-13: 9780674056084 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 468 str.

Jack W Chen

Opis

Emperor Taizong (r 626-49) of the Tang is remembered as an exemplary ruler. This title focuses on Taizong's literary writings that speak directly to the relationship between cultural form and sovereign power, as well as on the question of how the Tang negotiated dynastic identity through literary stylistics.