Letters and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China (MLI / A China Program Book)

This first book-length study in Chinese or any Western language of personal letters and letter-writing in premodern China focuses on the earliest period (ca. 3rd-6th cent. CE) with a sizeable body of surviving correspondence. Along with the translation and analysis of many representative letters, Antje Richter explores the material culture of letter writing (writing supports and utensils, envelopes and seals, the transportation of finished letters) and letter-writing conventions (vocabulary, textual patterns, topicality, creativity).

• | Author: Antje Richter
• | Publisher: University of Washington Press
• | Publication Date: May 13, 2013
• | Number of Pages: 235 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0295992786
• | ISBN-13: 9780295992785