Between History and Philosophy: Anecdotes in Early China by Sarah A. Queen,Paul van Els PDF

By Sarah A. Queen,Paul van Els

ISBN-10: 1438466110

ISBN-13: 9781438466118

Analyzes using anecdotes as a vital rhetorical device and kind of persuasion in a number of literary genres in early China.

Between background and Philosophy is the 1st book-length research in English to target the rhetorical services and varieties of anecdotal narratives in early China. Edited through Paul van Els and Sarah A. Queen, this quantity advances the thesis that anecdotes—brief, freestanding bills of unmarried occasions concerning historic figures, and sometimes additionally unnamed folks, animals, gadgets, or abstractions—served as a vital software of persuasion and meaning-making inside higher texts. members to the quantity examine using anecdotes from the Warring States interval to the Han Dynasty, together with their family to different different types of narrative, their movement and reception, and their critical place as a style of argumentation in numerous old and philosophical literary genres.

Paul van Els is collage Lecturer of China stories at Leiden collage, the Netherlands, and the writer of The Wenzi: construction, Manipulation, and Reception of a chinese language Philosophical Text.

Paul van Els is college Lecturer of China reports at Leiden college, the Netherlands, and the writer of The Wenzi: construction, Manipulation, and Reception of a chinese language Philosophical Text.

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