Liu Tsung-Yuan and Intellectual Change in T'Ang China 773 819

This is the first comprehensive study in a Western language of Liu Tsung-yan one of the finest prose stylists China has ever produced. Liu was not only a leading writer of T''ang China (618-906) but also an important thinker of his time. Examining every major aspect of his life and thought the book also discusses the relationship of his thought to mid-T''ang intellectual changes and offers a new interpretation of the origins of a key intellectual watershed the rise of Neo-Confucianism in the eleventh century.