The literary Chinese cosmopolis

Thesis

The thesis is set against the backdrop of literary Chinese as the cosmopolitan written language across East Asia and examines two contemporary literary Chinese writers in the ninth century: Ch'oe Ch'iwŏn from Silla Korea and Sugawara no Michizane from Heian Japan. Though composition in Chinese characters on the peninsula and the archipelago was ancient, a high-water mark within this community appeared in the ninth century. At that time, literary Chinese was embraced by mainstream lite...

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Authors: Wei, X

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Keywords: Silla Korea; Ch'oe Ch'iwon; Inter-Asian studies; Heian Japan; Sugawara no Michizane
• Subjects: Pre-modern Korean Literature