Literary Forms Of Argument In Early China
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Literary Forms of Argument in Early China
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2015-08-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004299702 |
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In Literary Forms of Argument in Early China, Gentz and Meyer explore a new analytical approach to the study of written thinking by focusing on the argumentative function of literary patterns in early Chinese texts.
Between History and Philosophy
Author | : Paul van Els,Sarah A. Queen |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2017-08-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781438466118 |
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Analyzes the use of anecdotes as an essential rhetorical tool and form of persuasion in various literary genres in early China. Between History and Philosophy is the first book-length study in English to focus on the rhetorical functions and forms of anecdotal narratives in early China. Edited by Paul van Els and Sarah A. Queen, this volume advances the thesis that anecdotesbrief, freestanding accounts of single events involving historical figures, and occasionally also unnamed persons, animals, objects, or abstractionsserved as an essential tool of persuasion and meaning-making within larger texts. Contributors to the volume analyze the use of anecdotes from the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty, including their relations to other types of narrative, their circulation and reception, and their central position as a mode of argumentation in a variety of historical and philosophical literary genres.
Documentation and Argument in Early China
Author | : Dirk Meyer |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2021-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110708608 |
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This study uncovers the traditions behind the formative Classic Shàngshū (Venerated Documents). It is the first to establish these traditions—“Shū” (Documents)—as a historically evolving practice of thought-production. By focusing on the literary form of the argument, it interprets the “Shū” as fluid text material that embodies the ever-changing cultural capital of projected conceptual communities. By showing how these communities actualised the “Shū” according to their changing visions of history and evolving group interests, the study establishes that by the Warring States period (ca. 453–221 BC) the “Shū” had become a literary genre employed by diverse groups to legitimize their own arguments. Through forms of textual performance, the “Shū” gave even peripheral communities the means to participate in political discourse by conferring their ideas with ancient authority. Analysing this dynamic environment of socio-political and philosophical change, this study speaks to the Early China field, as well as to those interested in meaning production and foundational text formation more widely.
Documentation and Argument in Early China
Author | : Dirk Meyer |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2021-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110708530 |
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This study uncovers the traditions behind the formative Classic Shàngshū (Venerated Documents). It is the first to establish these traditions—“Shū” (Documents)—as a historically evolving practice of thought-production. By focusing on the literary form of the argument, it interprets the “Shū” as fluid text material that embodies the ever-changing cultural capital of projected conceptual communities. By showing how these communities actualised the “Shū” according to their changing visions of history and evolving group interests, the study establishes that by the Warring States period (ca. 453–221 BC) the “Shū” had become a literary genre employed by diverse groups to legitimize their own arguments. Through forms of textual performance, the “Shū” gave even peripheral communities the means to participate in political discourse by conferring their ideas with ancient authority. Analysing this dynamic environment of socio-political and philosophical change, this study speaks to the Early China field, as well as to those interested in meaning production and foundational text formation more widely.
Powerful Arguments
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 633 |
Release | : 2020-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004423626 |
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The essays in Powerful Arguments reconstruct the standards of validity underlying argumentative practices in a wide array of late imperial Chinese discourses, ranging from historiography, philosophy, law and religion to natural studies, literature, and the civil examination system.
Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2015-07-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789004299337 |
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Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China explores Chinese political thought during the centuries surrounding the formation of the empire in 221 BCE, examining devices of legitimation, views of rulers and ministers, economic thought, and administrative practices.
Mediation of Legitimacy in Early China
Author | : Yegor Grebnev |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2022-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231555036 |
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Scholarship on early China has traditionally focused on a core group of canonical texts. However, understudied sources have the potential to shift perspectives on fundamental aspects of Chinese intellectual, religious, and political history. Yegor Grebnev examines crucial noncanonical texts preserved in the Yi Zhou shu (Neglected Zhou Scriptures) and the Grand Duke traditions, which represent scriptural traditions influential during the Warring States period but sidelined in later history. He develops an innovative framework for the study and interpretation of these texts, focusing on their role in the mediation of royal legitimacy and their formative impact on early Daoism. Grebnev demonstrates the centrality of the Yi Zhou shu in Chinese intellectual history by highlighting its simultaneous connections to canonical traditions and esoteric Daoism. He also shows that the Daoist rituals of textual transmission embedded in the Grand Duke traditions bear an imprint of the courtly environment of the Warring States period, where early Daoists strove for prestige and power, offering legitimacy through texts ascribed to the mythical sage rulers. These rituals appear to have emerged at the same period as the core Daoist philosophical texts and not several centuries later as conventionally believed, which calls for a reassessment of the history of Daoism’s interrelated religious and philosophical strands. Offering a far-reaching reconsideration of early Chinese intellectual and religious history, Mediation of Legitimacy in Early China sheds new light on the foundations of the Chinese textual tradition.
Chinese Annals in the Western Observatory
Author | : Edward Shaughnessy |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2019-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781501517105 |
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Since the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of documents of all sorts have been unearthed in China, opening whole new fields of study and transforming our modern understanding of ancient China. While these discoveries have necessarily taken place in China, Western scholars have also contributed to the study of these documents throughout this entire period. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the contributions of these Western scholars to the field of Chinese paleography, and especially to study of oracle-bone inscriptions, bronze and stone inscriptions, and manuscripts written on bamboo and silk. Each of these topics is provided with a comprehensive narrative history of studies by Western scholars, as well as an exhaustive bibliography and biographies of important scholars in the field. It is also supplied with a list of Chinese translations of these studies, as well as a complete index of authors and their works. Whether the reader is interested in the history of ancient China, ancient Chinese paleographic documents, or just in the history of the study of China as it has developed in the West, this book provides one of the most complete accounts available to date.