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Between History and Philosophy: Anecdotes in Early China
Contributor(s): Van Els, Paul (Editor), Queen, Sarah A. (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1438466129     ISBN-13: 9781438466125
Publisher: State University of New York Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Asian - Chinese
- Literary Collections | Asian - General
- History | Asia - China
Dewey: 895.180
Series: Suny Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (1.20 lbs) 386 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Chinese
- Cultural Region - Asian
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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.
 
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