Anthony Deblasi

Reform in the Balance (eBook, PDF)

The Defense of Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Presents the intellectual milieu of mid-Tang China, particularly the conservative defense of literary pursuits and cultural tradition in the face of political and social uncertainty.

Anthony DeBlasi offers a remapping of China's intellectual landscape during the late eighth and early ninth centuries. Recreating a world of intense philosophical debate, influenced by political uncertainty and social disorder, he reveals the logic behind the period's most popular philosophical positions.

Reform in the Balance casts aside traditional evaluations of the predominance of the Ancient Style Movement (guwen) during this era. Building on recent scholarship and his own reading of Tang sources, the author argues that the period's dominant intellectual position advocated moderately conservative cultural reform designed to defend literary pursuits and the broader cultural tradition from more strident critics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780791488331
• Artikelnr.: 60502024

Autorenporträt

Anthony DeBlasi is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York.