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Between history and philosophy : anecdotes in early China
Title:
Between history and philosophy : anecdotes in early China

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Author:
Els, Paul van, 1975- editor.
ISBN:
9781438466118

9781438466125
Physical Description:
ix, 376 pages ; 24 cm.
Series:
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
General Note:
"This book is the outcome of a delightful workshop that took place on May 31 and June 1, 2013, in the Blue Room of City Hotel Nieuw Minerva,...in Leiden, The Netherlands."--Page ix.
Includes text in both English and Chinese.
Contents:
Anecdotes in Early China / Paul van Els and Sarah A. Queen -- Part I. Anecdotes, Argumentation, and Debate. Non-deductive Argumentation in Early Chinese Philosophy / Paul R. Goldin -- The Frontier between Chen and Cai : Anecdote, Narrative, and Philosophical Argumentation in Early China / Andrew Seth Meyer -- Mozi as a Daoist Sage? : An Intertextual Analysis of the "Gongshu" Anecdote in the Mozi / Ting-mien Lee -- Anecdotal Barbarians in Early China / Wai-yee Li -- Part II. Anecdotes and Textual Formation. Anecdote Collections as Argumentative Texts : The Composition of the Shuoyuan / Christian Schwermann -- From Villains Outwitted to Pedants Out-Wrangled : The Function of Anecdotes in the Shifting Rhetoric of the Han Feizi / Heng Du -- The Limits of Praise and Blame : The Rhetorical Uses of Anecdotes i the Gongyangzhuan / Sarah A. Queen -- Part III. Anecdotes and History. History without Anecdotes : Between the Zuozhuan and the Xinian Manuscript / Yuri Pines -- Cultural Memory and Excavated Anecdotes in "Documentary" Narrative : Mediating Generic Tensions in the Baoxun Manuscript / Rens Krijgsman -- Old Stories No Longer Told : The End of the Anecdotes Tradition of Early China / Paul van Els.
Abstract:
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.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805:
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