Table of Contents

1: Wang Renyu and his memoirs
2: Oral history
3: A world of signs and symbols
4: In the background of war
5: Personalities of Shu
6: The fall of Former Shu in 925
7: The Khitan
8: Music and musicians
9: The wild
Epilogue: The signature on the portrait
Appendix A: Li Fang's Spirit Road epitaph for Wang Renyu
Appendix B: The memoirs
Appendix C: Catalogues
Appendix D: Wang Renyu and the musical modes

About the Author

Raised and schooled in Bristol, followed by National Service in the RAF, Glen Dudbridge began his study of Chinese at Cambridge University, where he graduated as BA in 1962 and as PhD in 1967. He was Lecturer in Modern Chinese at Oxford University from 1965 to 1985; Professor of Chinese at Cambridge from 1985 to 1989; and finally Shaw Professor of Chinese at Oxford until retirement in 2005. He has held visiting posts in USA, at Yale and UC Berkeley, and at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong. He became Fellow of the British Academy in 1984, and Honorary Academy Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1996.