TY - JOUR
T1 - From Restoration to Unification: Legitimacy and Loyalty in the Writings of Xu Xuan (917-992)
AU - Woolley, Nathan
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Works produced by Xu Xuan, a Chinese scholar-official of the tenth century, on either side of the Southern Tang-Song divide reveal the challenges on the issue of loyalty he faced in serving more than one state. Xu's works suggest that a personal transfer of service brought complications for any official seeking to write about the past, but these could be addressed according to context. Under the Song, the requirements of the new orthodoxy forced compromises and concessions in the sentiments he expressed, but he was still able to maintain reverence for the Southern Tang and its achievements.
AB - Works produced by Xu Xuan, a Chinese scholar-official of the tenth century, on either side of the Southern Tang-Song divide reveal the challenges on the issue of loyalty he faced in serving more than one state. Xu's works suggest that a personal transfer of service brought complications for any official seeking to write about the past, but these could be addressed according to context. Under the Song, the requirements of the new orthodoxy forced compromises and concessions in the sentiments he expressed, but he was still able to maintain reverence for the Southern Tang and its achievements.
U2 - 10.1017/S0041977X14000536
DO - 10.1017/S0041977X14000536
M3 - Article
VL - 77
SP - 547
EP - 567
JO - Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
JF - Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
SN - 0041-977X
IS - 3
ER -