Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600

The period between the fall of the Han in 220 and the reunification of the Chinese realm in the late sixth century receives short shrift in most accounts of Chinese history. The period is characterized as one of disorder and dislocation, ethnic strife, and bloody court struggles. Its lone achievement, according to many accounts, is the introduction of Buddhism. In the eight ess...

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The period between the fall of the Han in 220 and the reunification of the Chinese realm in the late sixth century receives short shrift in most accounts of Chinese history. The period is characterized as one of disorder and dislocation, ethnic strife, and bloody court struggles. Its lone achievement, according to many accounts, is the introduction of Buddhism. In the eight essays of Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600, the authors seek to chart the actual changes occurring in this period of disunion, and to show its relationship to what preceded and followed it. This exploration of a neglected period in Chinese history addresses such diverse subjects as the era's economy, Daoism, Buddhist art, civil service examinations, forays into literary theory, and responses to its own history.

Table Of Contents:
Maps and Figures vii
Preface ix
Patricia Ebrey
Abbreviations xiii
Contributors xv
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Table Of Contents:
Maps and Figures vii
Preface ix
Patricia Ebrey
Abbreviations xiii
Contributors xv
Dynastic Chronology xvii
Introduction 1(34)
Scott Pearce
Audrey Spiro
Patricia Ebrey
Part I Tracing Change
Jiankang and the Commercial Empire of the Southern Dynasties: Change and Continuity in Medieval Chinese Economic History 35(18)
Shufen Liu
To the Manner Born? Nature and Nurture in Early Medieval Chinese Literary Thought 53(22)
Robert Joe Cutter
Part II Encountering Ancients
A Dialogue with the Ancients: Tao Qian's Interrogation of Confucius 75(24)
Donald Holzman
Civil Service Examinations: Evidence from the Northwest 99(26)
Albert Dien
Part III Pruning Nettles
Hybrid Vigor: Memory, Mimesis, and the Matching of Meanings in Fifth-Century Buddhist Art 125(24)
Audrey Spiro
Form and Matter: Archaizing Reform in Sixth-Century China 149(32)
Scott Pearce
Part IV Creating Order
Lu Xiujing, Buddhism, and the First Daoist Canon 181(19)
Stephen Bokenkamp
Culling the Weeds and Selecting Prime Blossoms: The Anthology in Early Medieval China 200(45)
David R. Knechtges
Reference Matter
Notes 245(90)
Index 335
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