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Scott Pearce
Audrey Spiro
Patricia Ebrey

Table of contents :
TOC
Bokenkamp, Stephen-Lu Xiujing, Buddhism, and the First Daoist Canon
Liu, Shufen-Jiankang and the Commercial Empire of the Southern Dynasties
Cutter, Robert Joe-To the Manner Born-Nature and Nurture in Early Medieval Chinese Literary Thought
Part II-Encountering Ancients
Holzman, Donald-A Dialogue with the Ancients-Tao Qian's Interrogation of Confucius
Knechtges, David R.-Culling the Weeds and Selecting Prime Blossoms-The Anthology in Early Medieval China

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Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600

Scott Pearce, Audrey Spiro, and Patricia Ebrey, editors

Published by the Harvard University Asia Center and distributed by Harvard University Press Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London, 2001