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A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture Edited by Antje Richter LEIDEN | BOSTON For use by the Author only | ?

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2015 Koninklijke Brill NV Contents Acknowledgements?ix List of Illustrations?xi Abbreviations?xiii About the Contributors?xiv Introduction: The Study of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture?1 Antje Richter PART

1 Material Aspects of Chinese Letter Writing Culture

1 Reconstructing the Postal Relay System of the Han Period?17 Y.

Edmund Lien

2 Letters as Calligraphy Exemplars: The Long and Eventful Life of Yan Zhenqing'

s (709C785) Imperial Commissioner Liu Letter?53 Amy McNair

3 Chinese Decorated Letter Papers?97 Suzanne E. Wright

4 Material and Symbolic Economies: Letters and Gifts in Early Medieval China?135 Xiaofei Tian PART

2 Contemplating the Genre

5 Letters in the Wen xuan?189 David R. Knechtges

6 Between Letter and Testament: Letters of Familial Admonition in Han and Six Dynasties China?239 Antje Richter vi Contents For use by the Author only | ?

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7 The Space of Separation: The Early Medieval Tradition of Four-Syllable Presentation and Response Poetry?276 Zeb Raft

8 Letters and Memorials in the Early Third Century: The Case of Cao Zhi?307 Robert Joe Cutter

9 Liu Xie'

s Institutional Mind: Letters, Administrative Documents, and Political Imagination in Fifth- and Sixth-Century China?331 Pablo Ariel Blitstein

10 Bureaucratic Influences on Letters in Middle Period China: Observations from Manuscript Letters and Literati Discourse?363 Lik Hang Tsui PART

3 Diversity of Content and Style section

1 Informal Letters

11 Private Letter Manuscripts from Early Imperial China?403 Enno Giele

12 Su Shi'

s Informal Letters in Literature and Life?475 Ronald Egan

13 The Letter as Artifact of Sentiment and Legal Evidence?508 Janet Theiss

14 Inf?inite Variations of Writing and Desire: Love Letters in China and Europe?546 Bonnie S. McDougall

15 Writing from Revolution'

s Debris: Shen Congwen'

s Family Letters in the Mao Era?582 Jie Li vii Contents For use by the Author only | ?

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2 Literary Letters

16 Captured in Words: Functions and Limits of Autobiographical Expression in Early Chinese Epistolary Literature?621 Matthew Wells

17 Civil Examinations and Cover Letters in the Mid-Tang: Dugu Yu'

s (776C815) Letter Submitted to Attendant Gentleman Quan of the Ministry of Rites ?643 Alexei Ditter

18 The Inscription of Emotion in Mid-Tang Collegial Letters?675 Anna M. Shields

19 Halves and Holes: Collections, Networks, and Epistolary Practices of Chan Monks?721 Natasha Heller

20 Letters as Windows on Ming-Qing Women'

s Literary Culture?744 Ellen Widmer

21 Epistolary Networks and Practice in the Early Qing: The Letters Written to Yan Guangmin?775 David Pattinson section

3 Open Letters

22 Aid and Comfort: Lu Zhaolin'

s Letters?829 Paul W. Kroll

23 She Association Circulars from Dunhuang?853 Imre Galambos

24 Between Writing and Publishing Letters: Publishing a Letter about Book Proprietorship?878 Suyoung Son For use by the Author only | ?

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25 Opinions Going Public: Letters to the Editors in China'

s Earliest Modern Newspapers?900 Natascha Gentz Scholarship on Chinese Epistolary Literature and Culture: A Select Bibliography?933 Index?942 ? koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2015?|?doi 10.1163/9789004292123_006 chapter