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

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

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