Description: Early medieval writers in China understood and manipulated a shared intellectual lexicon to produce meaning. Wendy Swartz explores how these writers developed a distinctive mosaic of ways to participate in their cultural heritage by weaving textual strands from a shared and expanding store of literary resources into new patterns and configurations.
Brief description: Wendy Swartz is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Rutgers University.
Review Quotes: This new study on pre-Tang classical Chinese poetry is one of a kind. For the first time, the handful of best-known poet-intellectuals from the Period of Disunion are discussed as a group...A gem. It will satisfy the expert as well as pique the interest of a novice in classical Chinese literature.--Ping Wang "China Review International" (6/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)