From Tang to Song: Transmissions and Inventions in China's Middle Period, Volume 2

Introduction Part 1: Social History 1. The Doubling of the Population between the Tang and the Song: History and Historiography 2. Articulations of Elite Identity During the Tang Dynasty 3. From 'Aristocracy' to 'Meritocracy': A Lexicometric Approach to the Analysis of Discourse Change across the Tang-Song Transition 4. Women's Associations in Medieval China, Fifth to Tenth Centuries 5. Changing Practices of Patronage, Late Tang to Song Part 2: Medical History 6. Genre and Medicine in the Tang and Song: Toward a Medical Poetics 7. The Uneven Place of Ritual Therapeutics in Medical Governance: From Tang to Song Huizong Part 3: Ritual and Religion 8. Reassessing the Baolin zhuan ¿¿¿ and its Place in Tang, Five Dynasties & Ten Kingdoms, and Song Chan Buddhism 9. Deities, the People, and Political and Social Order: Rain-Prayer Writing (Qiyu wen ¿¿¿) in Tang and Song China 10. A Common Framework for Sacrifices: Li Longqian, Ox Heart Hill, and the State from the Tang to the Early Ming 11. On the Term "Ritual Master" as a Source of Perplexity 12. Interiorization in Song Daoist Ritual 13. Deviation from the Tang Models: The Making of the Song Divine Ancestor