The Threshold : The Rhetoric of Historiography in Early Medieval China /

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? See...

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Main Author: Raft, Zeb (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Massachusetts ; Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center, 2023.

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Biography.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > China > History > To 1500.

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Call Number: DS748.62

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Author: Zeb Raft
  • Introduction /
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  • Interiority /
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  • Exteriority /
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  • An Essay in Officialdom /
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  • Historiographical Self-Fashioning
  • The Rhetoric of a Court Debate /
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  • The Historical Process /
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  • Epideictic History /
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  • The Song shu Biography of Liu Muzhi (360-417) /
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  • Works Cited /
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  • Index /
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  • Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series /
  • Author: Zeb Raft.