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This biography of the court scholar Xun Xu explores central areas of intellectual life in third-century China -- court lyrics, music, metrology, pitch systems, archeology, and historiography. It clarifies the relevant source texts in order to reveal fierce debates. Besides solving technical puzzles about the material details of court rites, the book unfolds factional struggles that developed into scholarly ones.

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This biography of the court scholar Xun Xu explores central areas of intellectual life in third-century China -- court lyrics, music, metrology, pitch systems, archeology, and historiography. It clarifies the relevant source texts in order to reveal fierce debates. Besides solving technical puzzles about the material details of court rites, the book unfolds factional struggles that developed into scholarly ones.
Autorenporträt
Howard L. Goodman, Ph.D. Princeton University is editor of Asia Major (Academia Sinica, Taiwan). His focus is Chinese intellectual culture, 170-300 AD. His publications include Ts'ao P'i Transcendent (1998), "Sites of Recognition" (Early Medieval China, 2009), "Chinese Polymaths" (Asia Major, 2005).