Manifest in Words, Written on Paper

By Christopher Nugent, associate professor of Chinese. Harvard University Press, 2010. In this volume, Nugent transforms the way we think and write about medieval poetry in China. Nugent’s book urges readers to reconsider what we can assume about the authorship and authorial control of Tang poems, showing us the ways that our understanding and appreciation of literature can be radically altered when we reconsider poems as material objects.