Between History and Philosophy

Anecdotes in Early China

AvPaul van Els,Sarah A. Queen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

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 anecdotes-brief, freestanding accounts of single events involving historical figures, and occasionally also unnamed persons, animals, objects, or abstractions-served 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-09-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt:635 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Antal sidor:386
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9781438466118

Utforska kategorier

Antologier inom Skönlitteratur
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Biografier inom Biografier

Mer om författaren

Paul van Els is University Lecturer of China Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and the author of The Wenzi: Creation, Manipulation, and Reception of a Chinese Philosophical Text. Sarah A. Queen is Professor of History at Connecticut College and the coeditor (with Michael Puett) of The Huainanzi and Textual Production in Early China.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Anecdotes in Early ChinaPaul van Els and Sarah A. Queen Part I. Anecdotes, Argumentation, and Debate 1. Non-deductive Argumentation in Early Chinese PhilosophyPaul R. Goldin 2. The Frontier between Chen and Cai: Anecdote, Narrative, and Philosophical Argumentation in Early ChinaAndrew Seth Meyer 3. Mozi as a Daoist Sage? An Intertextual Analysis of the "Gongshu" Anecdote in the Mozi Ting-mien Lee 4. Anecdotal Barbarians in Early ChinaWai-yee Li Part II. Anecdotes and Textual Formation 5. Anecdote Collections as Argumentative Texts: The Composition of the ShuoyuanChristian Schwermann 6. From Villains Outwitted to Pedants Out-Wrangled: The Function of Anecdotes in the Shifting Rhetoric of the Han Feizi Heng Du 7. The Limits of Praise and Blame: The Rhetorical Uses of Anecdotes in the Gongyangzhuan Sarah A. Queen Part III. Anecdotes and History 8. History without Anecdotes: Between the Zuozhuan and the Xinian ManuscriptYuri Pines 9. Cultural Memory and Excavated Anecdotes in "Documentary" Narrative: Mediating Generic Tensions in the Baoxun ManuscriptRens Krijgsman 10. Old Stories No Longer Told: The End of the Anecdotes Tradition of Early ChinaPaul van Els ContributorsIndex