Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China 9780824874223

Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China presents a rogues’ gallery of treacherous regicides, impious monks, cutthroat

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Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
Part I. Broken Ties
1. There Are Maggots in My Soup!
2. Negative Role Models
3. Copulating with One’s Stepmother—Or Birth Mother?
4. Intransigent and Corrupt Officials in Early Imperial China
Part II. Orthopraxy vs. Heteropraxy
5. Rituals without Rules
6. Bad Writing
7. Wild Youths and Fallen Officials
8. Alcoholism and Song Literati
9. Flouting, Flashing, and Favoritism
Part III. Cultures of Bloodshed and Mayhem
10. Running Amok in Early Chinese Narrative
11. “Wolves Shepherding the People”
12. A “Villain-Monk” Brought Down by a Villein-General
13. Martial Monks without Borders
Contributors
Index
About the Editors

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