The threshold the rhetoric of historiography in early medieval China

"What happens when historiography-the way historical events are committed to writing-shapes historical events as they occur? How do we read biography when it is truly "life-writing," its subjects fully engaged with the historiographical rhetoric that would record their words and deeds...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Raft, Zeb, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center [2023]
Colección:Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 136
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The "Absolute" Quality of Historiography
  • The Historical Actor and the Rhetoric of Interiority
  • The Threat of Exteriorization, and Defense Against It
  • Role, Type, and Rhetoric
  • The Abuse of Liu Muzhi
  • The Use of Liu Muzhi
  • Written into History
  • A Grammar of Officialdom
  • Rhetoric Exigence: Wang Hong Opens the Debate
  • Exposition: Speakers One and Two Set the Terms
  • Gentry Reasoning Speaker Four: A More Perfect Gentry Casuistry
  • The Righteous Contrarian
  • The Orchestrator Returns
  • Into the Historical Frame
  • The Documentary Motive
  • Historiography as Public and Private Interest
  • The Exigence of Incompletion.