The Threshold : The Rhetoric of Historiography in Early Medieval China / Zeb Raft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raft, Zeb, author.

Series:

Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; Volume 136.

Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series ; Volume 136

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biography.

Rhetoric--Political aspects--China--History--To 1500.

Rhetoric.

China--History--Liu Song dynasty, 420-479--Historiography.

China.

China--Biography--History and criticism.

Shen, Yue, 441-513. Song shu.

Shen, Yue.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

The Rhetoric of Historiography in Early Medieval China

Place of Publication:

Massachusetts ; Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Less

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Author: Zeb Raft

Introduction / Author: Zeb Raft

Interiority / Author: Zeb Raft

Exteriority / Author: Zeb Raft

An Essay in Officialdom / Author: Zeb Raft

Historiographical Self-Fashioning

The Rhetoric of a Court Debate / Author: Zeb Raft

The Historical Process / Author: Zeb Raft

Epideictic History / Author: Zeb Raft

The Song shu Biography of Liu Muzhi (360–417) / Author: Zeb Raft

Works Cited / Author: Zeb Raft

Index / Author: Zeb Raft

Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series / Author: Zeb Raft.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-68417-658-1

OCLC:

1443940439

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684176588 DOI