Rhetoric in Ancient China, Fifth to Third Century B. C. e : A Comparison with Classical Greek Rhetoric / Xing Lu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lu, Xing, 1956- author.

Series:

Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese language--Rhetoric.

Chinese language.

Chinese language--To 600.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [1998]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Editor's preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chronology of Chinese dynasties from Xia to the warring states period

Chinese school of thoughts and thinkers

Abbreviations

Introduction

Perceptions and methodology in the study of classical Chinese rhetoric

cultural contexts and rhetorical practices of the pre-Qin period

Chinese terminology of rhetoric

Rhetorical features in literary and historical texts

Conceptualization of Ming Bian: the School of Ming

Conceptualization of Yan and Ming Bian: the School of Confucianism

Conceptualization of Ming Bian: the School of Mohism

Conceptualization of Yan and Ming Bian: the School of Daoism

Conceptualization of Shui and Ming Bian by Han Feizi

Conclusions and implications

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

© 1998 University of South Carolina.

Cloth edition published by the University of South Carolina Press, 1998.

Paperback edition published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press, 2011.

www.sc.edu/uscpress.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-64336-290-9

OCLC:

1302111254

Publisher Number:

2027/heb31828 hdl