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Analyzes the use of anecdotes as an essential rhetorical tool and form of persuasion in various literary genres in early China. 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.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Anecdotes in Early China Paul van Els and Sarah A. Queen Part I. Anecdotes, Argumentation, and Debate 1. Non-deductive Argumentation in Early Chinese Philosophy Paul R. Goldin 2. The Frontier between Chen and Cai: Anecdote, Narrative, and Philosophical Argumentation in Early China Andrew 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 China Wai-yee Li Part II. Anecdotes and Textual Formation 5. Anecdote Collections as Argumentative Texts: The Composition of the Shuoyuan Christian 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 Manuscript Yuri Pines 9. Cultural Memory and Excavated Anecdotes in "Documentary" Narrative: Mediating Generic Tensions in the Baoxun Manuscript Rens Krijgsman 10. Old Stories No Longer Told: The End of the Anecdotes Tradition of Early China Paul van Els Contributors Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781438466118
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 386
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 684 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1438466110
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Anecdotes in Early China
  • Width: 152 mm


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