Celestial Signs And Classical Rhetoric In Early Imperial China
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| Author | : Jesse J. Chapman |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2025-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Celestial Signs and Classical Rhetoric in Early Imperial China considers how the reading of celestial signs—including comets, strange clouds, halos, rainbows, and planets in retrograde motion—fit into broader understandings of the human and cosmic worlds in Han times. Advancing a cultural studies approach to celestial signs, Jesse J. Chapman traces the theory and practice of sign-reading across a range of genres, including technical manuals, historical narratives, and memorials to the throne. Moving from variegated materials in an early tomb to historical treatises compiled over several centuries, Chapman demonstrates that rhetoric and ideals drawn from classical texts gradually became fundamental sources of authority for interpreters of celestial signs. Sign-reading in practice proved both flexible and context-dependent, and interpreters of celestial signs rarely, if ever, read omens in isolation. Celestial signs became meaningful in the context of historical understanding, personal experience, the state of the empire, and the life of the court. Reading omens meant reading the state of the world at a particular moment in time.
| Author | : David W. Pankenier |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 617 |
| Release | : 2013-10-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107006724 |
Drawing on a vast array of scholarship, this pioneering text illustrates how profoundly astronomical phenomena shaped ancient Chinese civilization.
| Author | : Carol S. Lipson |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2012-02-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 079148503X |
Focusing on ancient rhetoric outside of the dominant Western tradition, this collection examines rhetorical practices in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, and China. The book uncovers alternate ways of understanding human behavior and explores how these rhetorical practices both reflected and influenced their cultures. The essays address issues of historiography and raise questions about the application of Western rhetorical concepts to these very different ancient cultures. A chapter on suggestions for teaching each of these ancient rhetorics is included.
| Author | : Xing Lu |
| Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2022-03-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1643362909 |
Xing Lu examines language, art, persuasion, and argumentation in ancient China and offers a detailed and authentic account of ancient Chinese rhetorical theories and practices within the society's philosophical, political, cultural, and linguistic contexts. She focuses on the works of five schools of thought and ten well-known Chinese thinkers from Confucius to Han Feizi to the the Later Mohists. Lu identifies seven key Chinese terms pertaining to speech, language, persuasion, and argumentation as they appeared in these original texts, selecting ming bian as the linchpin for the Chinese conceptual term of rhetorical studies. Lu compares Chinese rhetorical perspectives with those of the ancient Greeks, illustrating that the Greeks and the Chinese shared a view of rhetoric as an ethical enterprise and of speech as a rational and psychological activity. The two traditions differed, however, in their rhetorical education, sense of rationality, perceptions of the role of language, approach to the treatment and study of rhetoric, and expression of emotions. Lu also links ancient Chinese rhetorical perspectives with contemporary Chinese interpersonal and political communication behavior and offers suggestions for a multicultural rhetoric that recognizes both culturally specific and transcultural elements of human communication.
| Author | : Min Li |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 588 |
| Release | : 2018-05-24 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 110859154X |
In this book, Li Min proposes a new paradigm for the foundation and emergence of the classical tradition in early China, from the late Neolithic through the Zhou period. Using a wide range of historical and archaeological data, he explains the development of ritual authority and particular concepts of kingship over time in relation to social memory. His volume weaves together the major benchmarks in the emergence of the classical tradition, particularly how legacies of prehistoric interregional interactions, state formation, urban florescence and collapse during the late third and the second millenniums BCE laid the critical foundation for the Sandai notion of history among Zhou elite. Moreover, the literary-historical accounts of the legendary Xia Dynasty in early China reveal a cultural construction involving social memories of the past and subsequent political elaborations in various phases of history. This volume enables a new understanding on the long-term processes that enabled a classical civilization in China to take shape.
| Author | : Min Li |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 587 |
| Release | : 2018-05-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107141451 |
A thought-provoking book on the archaeology of power, knowledge, social memory, and the emergence of classical tradition in early China.
| Author | : Haixia Lan |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2016-11-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1315400413 |
Readings of Aristotle’s and Confucius’ teachings reveal that both philosophers’ rhetorical thinking contain vital similarities which can help us understand cultural differences today. Much has been said about Aristotle’s definition of rhetoric as ‘the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion’ but few studies have focused on his depiction of rhetoric as ‘partly like dialectic, and partly like sophistical reasoning’. Yet, this Aristotelian conception of rhetoric sheds light on a similarity with Confucius’ teaching: both Confucius and Aristotle see the human understanding of the truths of things as necessarily having a dimension that is open-ended and discursive.
| Author | : Brian C. Schmidt |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2016-02-24 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1438419015 |
CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books This detailed disciplinary history of the field of international relations examines its early emergence in the mid-nineteenth century to the period beginning with the outbreak of World War II. It demonstrates that many of the commonly held assumptions about the field's early history are incorrect, such as the presumed dichotomy between idealist and realist periods. By showing how the concepts of sovereignty and anarchy have served as the core constituent principles throughout the history of the discipline, and how earlier discourse is relevant to the contemporary study of war and peace, international security, international organization, international governance, and international law, the book contributes significantly to current debates about the identity of the international relations field and political science more generally.
| Author | : Timothy Hugh Barrett |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 1990-04-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780520064416 |
The thirteen essays in this volume, all by experts in the field of Chinese studies, reflect the diversity of approaches scholars follow in the study of China's past. Together they reveal the depth and vitality of Chinese civilization and demonstrate how an understanding of traditional China can enrich and broaden our own contemporary worldview.
| Author | : Lisa Raphals |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 499 |
| Release | : 2013-10-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107010756 |
This book compares the intellectual and social history and past and present contexts of mantic practices (divination) in Chinese and Greek antiquity.
