Fusheng Wu is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at the University of Utah and the author of The Poetics of Decadence: Chinese Poetry of the Southern Dynasties and the Late Tang Periods, also published by SUNY Press.

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Han Epideictic Rhapsody: The Prototype of Panegyric Poetry

2. Self-Foregrounding in the Panegyric Poetry of the Jian'an Era

3. Archaic Elegance in the Panegyric Poetry of the Jin Dynasty

4. Addressing the Best and Worst of Rulers: Panegyric Poetry of the Liu Song Dynasty

5. Praising Rulers throughout Calm and Conspiracy: The Southern Qi Dynasty

6. The Flourishing of Panegyric Poetry during the Liang Dynasty

7. Poetry's Embarrassment: Panegyric Poetry of the Chen Dynasty

8. Becoming Chinese: Panegyric Poetry during the Northern Dynasties

9. Matching Poems with a Cruel but Talented Ruler: The Sui Dynasty

Conclusion
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Index