Dialogues in the Dark: Interpreting "Heavenly Questions" Across Two Millennia - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Nicholas Morrow WilliamsSeries:Harvard-Yenching Institute MonographPublish date:8/26/2025Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674299993ISBN-10:067429999XUPC:9780674299993Book Category:Literary Criticism, PoetryBook Subcategory:Poetry, AsianBook Topic:ChineseSize:9.30 x 6.38 x 1.11 inchesWeight:1.4418Product ID:SC8FNE96EJ
Dialogues in the Dark traces how Chinese readers and scholars since the Han dynasty have variously interpreted the ancient poem "Heavenly Questions" (Tianwen), an enigmatic work attributed to Qu Yuan (fl. ca. 300 BCE). The poem, composed entirely in the form of questions, is an extended inquiry into early Chinese cosmology and history. Over centuries, readers of the poem came to radically...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674299993ISBN-10:067429999XUPC:9780674299993Book Category:Literary Criticism, PoetryBook Subcategory:Poetry, AsianBook Topic:ChineseSize:9.30 x 6.38 x 1.11 inchesWeight:1.4418Product ID:SC8FNE96EJ
Williams, Nicholas Morrow: - Nicholas Morrow Williams is Professor of Chinese at Arizona State University.
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