This book traces the shared culture of the Chinese elite from the
seventh to the twelfth centuries. The early T'ang definition of
'This Culture of Ours' combined literary and scholarly traditions
from the previous five centuries. The late Sung Neo-Confucian
movement challenged that definition. The author argues that the
Tang-Sung transition is best understood as a transition from a
literary view of culture - in which literary accomplishment and
mastery of traditional forms were regarded as essential - to the
ethical orientation of Neo-Confucianism, in which the cultivation
of one's innate moral ability was regarded as the goal of learning.
The author shows that this transformation paralleled the collapse
of the T'ang order and the restoration of a centralized empire
under the Sung, underscoring the connection between elite formation
and political institutions.
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