LEADER 03323nam 22005535 450 001 996411332303316 005 20231110230956.0 010 $a1-5015-0319-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501503191 035 $a(CKB)5400000000002461 035 $a(DE-B1597)456991 035 $a(OCoLC)1243311422 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501503191 035 $aEBL7014815 035 $a(AU-PeEL)EBL7014815 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7014815 035 $a(EXLCZ)995400000000002461 100 $a20210421h20212021 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFamily Instructions for the Yan Clan and Other Works by Yan Zhitui (531-590s) /$fXiaofei Tian; Paul Kroll 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston :$cDe Gruyter Mouton,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (XLIII, 585 p.) 225 0 $aLibrary of Chinese Humanities 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-5015-1140-8 327 $tFrontmatter --$tTable of Contents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tFamily Instructions for the Yan Clan --$tPoetic Works --$tAbbreviations --$tAdditional Notes --$tAppendix (Yan Zhitui's Biographies in Dynastic Histories) 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 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General$2bisacsh 610 $aFamily Instructions. 610 $aYan Zhitui. 610 $aclan and family. 610 $aconduct of life. 610 $aethics. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General. 700 $aTian$b Xiaofei$f1971-$01178097 702 $aKroll$b Paul$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 712 02$aAndrew W. Mellon Foundation,$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996411332303316 996 $aFamily Instructions for the Yan Clan and Other Works by Yan Zhitui (531-590s)$92855688 997 $aUNISA