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Family Instructions for the Yan Clan and Other Works by Yan Zhitui (531-590s) (Hardcover)
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Family Instructions for the Yan Clan and Other Works by Yan Zhitui (531-590s) (Hardcover)
Series: Library of Chinese Humanities
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Yan 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.
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