Chinese Literature in Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Chinese Literature in Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

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Holzman, Donald
Taylor & Francis
EAN: 9781040231265
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This volume aims to account for the tremendous changes in the attitudes towards the world and towards themselves that can be seen in the works of Chinese writers in the early centuries of the Christian era. How do the massive conversion of such a large part of the population to Buddhism and the widespread development of the Daoist religion correspond to the conversion of the West to Christianity? Does this conversion to new religions that were replacing the ancient imperial religions represent similar developments on the eastern and western fringes of the Old World? Can we speak with any confidence of the gradual evolution of China from an 'Antiquity' to a 'Middle Ages'? The author attempts to show that, in their attitudes towards literature and their appreciation of landscape, during the Han and the first four centuries of the Christian era, we can see signs of a turning inward and the birth of new forms of spirituality akin to those that arose in the West during the same period.
EAN 9781040231265
ISBN 1040231268
Typ produktu Ebook
Vydavatel Taylor & Francis
Datum vydání 11. prosince 2024
Stránky 350
Jazyk English
Země United Kingdom
Autoři Holzman, Donald
Série Variorum Collected Studies