{"product_id":"one-who-knows-me-9780674504370","title":"One Who Knows Me","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFriendships between writers of the mid-Tang era became famous through the many texts they wrote to and about one another. Anna M. Shields explores these texts to reveal the complex value the writers found in friendship—as a rewarding social practice, a rich literary topic, a way to negotiate literati identity, and a path toward self-understanding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExemplary in its scholarship and written with great human warmth and compassion, this book examines friendship among the literati of late eighth- and early ninth-century China as both an impetus to writing and as a social act. Through superb translations and acute interpretation, Shields opens a window on many heretofore neglected aspects of Tang-dynasty culture. Readers will be enlightened, captivated, and often emotionally moved to a degree unusual in an academic study. A book that brings the medieval past alive. -- Paul W. Kroll, University of Colorado Boulder","brand":"Harvard University, Asia Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403595129175,"sku":"9780674504370","price":35.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674504370.jpg?v=1730483928","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/one-who-knows-me-9780674504370","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}