Between History and Philosophy

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.

• 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