LEADER 02585nam 2200409 450 001 9910476755203321 005 20230508174313.0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501503191 035 $a(CKB)5470000000566747 035 $a(NjHacI)995470000000566747 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000000566747 100 $a20230508d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aFamily instructions for the Yan Clan and other works by Yan Zhitui (531-590s) /$fedited by Paul W. Kroll 210 1$aBerlin :$cDe Gruyter Mouton,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (xliii, 585 pages) 225 1 $aLibrary of Chinese humanities 311 $a1-5015-0313-8 330 $aYan Zhitui (531-590s) was a courtier and cultural luminary who lived a colourful life during one of the most chaotic periods, known as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, in Chinese history. Beginning his career in the southern Liang court, he was taken captive to the north after the Liang capital fell, and served several northern dynasties. Today he remains one of the best-known medieval writers for his book-length "family instructions" (jiaxun), the earliest surviving and the most influential of its kind. Completed in his last years, the work resembles a long letter addressed to his sons, in which he discusses a wide range of topics from family relations and remarriage to religious faith, philology, cultural arts, and codes of conduct in public and private life. It is filled with vivid details of contemporary social life, and with the author's keen observations of the mores of north and south China. This is a new, complete translation into English, with critical notes and introduction, and based on recent scholarship, of Yan Zhitui's Family Instructions, and of all of his extant literary works, including his self-annotated poetic autobiography and a never-before-translated fragmentary rhapsody, as well as of his biographies in dynastic histories. 410 0$aLibrary of Chinese humanities. 517 $aFamily Instructions for the Yan Clan and Other Works by Yan Zhitui 606 $aEthics$zChina$xHistory 606 $aEthics$zChina$vEarly works to 1800 615 0$aEthics$xHistory. 615 0$aEthics 676 $a170.951 702 $aKroll$b Paul W. 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910476755203321 996 $aFamily instructions for the Yan Clan and other works by Yan Zhitui (531-590s)$93299254 997 $aUNINA