Johannes L. Kurz

The Imperial Library of the Northern Song

A Complete Translation of the Lintai gushi (canben) ¿¿¿¿ (¿¿) by Cheng Ju ¿¿ (1078-1144). Sprache: Englisch.

kartoniert , 192 Seiten

ISBN 3948791112

EAN 9783948791117

Veröffentlicht September 2021

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Beschreibung

The present text is a translation of the Lintai gushi by Cheng Ju, a book that
deals with the imperial book collections under the Northern Song. The library
collections of the early Northern Song were created from scratch, only to be
partially destroyed again in the disastrous fire of 1015 and during the shift of the
capital from Kaifeng to Hangzhou. Cheng Jüs Lintai gushi is the oldest surviving
source of information on the Northern Song (960-1126) imperial libraries. The Lintai
gushi bears witness to the various activities undertaken to rebuild comprehensive
book collections and thus to fill the gap in the history of imperial Song
libraries.