Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series

Nicholas Morrow Williams
Dialogues in the Dark

Dialogues in the Dark traces how Chinese readers and scholars since the Han dynasty have variously interpreted the ancient poem "Heavenly Questions" (Tianwen), an enigmatic work attributed to Qu…

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Nikolas Broy
Flourishing Fasts

Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series

Flourishing Feasts is the first book to explore the socioreligious history of the Zhaijiao, "vegetarian sects," that originated in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties and are still active i…

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Antje Richter
Health and the Art of Living: Illness Narratives in Early Medieval Chinese Literature

Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series

Health and the Art of Living offers reflections on health and illness in early medieval Chinese literature (ca. 200-ca. 600). Surveying a range of literary sources-essays, prefaces, correspondence, religi…

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Benjamin Ridgway
Longing for Landscape

Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series

Longing for Landscape explores the work of famed Chinese poet Su Shi (1037-1101) and his creation of a new song lyric style that culminated during his political exile in the late eleventh century. Su Shi …

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Mengxiao Wang
Performing Enlightenment

Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series

In early modern China, a major revival of Buddhism coincided with a surging fascination with theater. Buddhist monastics and laypeople increasingly participated in viewing, discussing, and writing plays. …

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He Bian, Marten Soderblom Saarela
The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China

Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series

As the territory of Qing China expanded, so evolved the ways in which birds, beasts, fish, trees, and flowers came to be known in the multilingual empire. The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants an…

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Mark Meulenbeld
The Presence of Peach Spring

Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series

The Presence of Peach Spring radically breaks with conventional interpretations of medieval luminary Tao Qian's famous "Record of Peach Blossom Spring" by connecting the tale to its stated geogr…

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Cheng-Hua Wang
Up the River of Time

Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series

Qingming shanghe (Up the River during Qingming ), dubbed China's Mona Lisa, is a painting whose primordial version is attributed to Zhang Zeduan, a painter who lived during the Northern Song dynasty (960-…

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