One Who Knows Me

Download or read book One Who Knows Me written by Anna M. Shields and published by Harvard Univ Council on East Asian. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the literature of the mid-Tang to reveal the complex value that its writers discovered in friendship--as a rewarding social practice, a rich literary topic, a way to negotiate literati identity, and a path toward self-understanding. Shields traces the evolution of the performance of friendship through a wide range of genres, including letters, prefaces, exchange poetry, and funerary texts, and weaves elegant translations with close readings of these texts"--Provided by the publisher.