Talent of Shu,: Qiao Zhou and the Intellectual World of Early Medieval Sichuan
, by Farmer, J. MichaelNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780791471647 | 0791471640
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/1/2008
The Talent of Shu reconstructs the intellectual world of early medieval Sichuan through a critical biography of Qiao Zhou, a noted classicist, historian, and official of Shu-Han. Countering conceptions of Sichuan as an intellectual backwater, author J. Michael Farmer provides an analytical narrative history of the significant intellectual and scholarly activity in the region during the late second through third centuries CE.