1st Edition
Yuan Zhen’s New Music Bureau Poetry Music and Ritual as Means of Governance
Acknowledgments
Permissions
List of Abbreviations
Chapter I Introduction
Chapter II Literary and Political Background
Chapter III Music and Ritual as Means of Governance
Chapter IV On Musical Instruments
Chapter V On Dances with Accompaniment
Chapter VI On the Imperial Transgression of Ritual
Chapter VII On the Transgression of Subjects
Chapter VIII On Benevolence
Chapter IX Conclusion
Appendix Prosody of New Music Bureau Poetry
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Mei Ah Tan, Ph.D. (2008), University of Wisconsin, Madison, is Professor of Chinese, Programme Director of the Master of Arts in Chinese, and Associate Director of The Tin Ka Ping Institute for Chinese Language and Culture at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. Her research is multidisciplinary, exploring the intersection of linguistics, literature, and history. She has published on classical Chinese language and literature. Her work includes articles on Yuan Zhen and Han Yu and A Dictionary of High Frequency Function Words in Literary Chinese (Routledge, 2023).
