| Writing Against the State: Political Rhetorics in Third and Fourth Century China Contributor(s): Declercq, Dominik (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004103767 ISBN-13: 9789004103764 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $247.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1998 Annotation: This book is about the tension between "de facto political power and the claims to intellectual and moral leadership of the "shi ('gentleman class') in Early Medieval China. "Shelun, or Hypothetical Discourse, is a hitherto neglected Chinese literary genre. The author for the first time places the surviving texts against the political background that accounts for its rise and decline in early medieval China. Comprehensively annotated translations of seven Hypothetical Discourses are placed in the context of their authors' lives and times, with an emphasis on the post-Han examples of the genre. This thorough study gives insight into this subgenre of "fu by which the world of the Chinese gentleman class finds an always ambiguous expression in the rhyme-prose texts under review. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - General - Architecture | Interior Design - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Dewey: 895.142 |
| LCCN: 97042284 |
| Series: Sinica Leidensia |
| Physical Information: 1.27" H x 6.5" W x 9.66" (2.07 lbs) 444 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This book is about the tension between de facto political power and the claims to intellectual and moral leadership of the shi ('gentleman class') in Early Medieval China. Shelun, or Hypothetical Discourse, is a hitherto neglected Chinese literary genre. The author for the first time places the surviving texts against the political background that accounts for its rise and decline in early medieval China. Comprehensively annotated translations of seven Hypothetical Discourses are placed in the context of their authors' lives and times, with an emphasis on the post-Han examples of the genre. This thorough study gives insight into this subgenre of fu by which the world of the Chinese gentleman class finds an always ambiguous expression in the rhyme-prose texts under review. |