The politics of the past in early China /
Introduction In early China, the past was ubiquitous. It is no exaggeration to say that almost every text in the extant corpus refers to the past in one manner or another. Some of them merely gesture towards it, say, by invoking the commonplace but densely loaded term for 'antiquity' (...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | Introduction In early China, the past was ubiquitous. It is no exaggeration to say that almost every text in the extant corpus refers to the past in one manner or another. Some of them merely gesture towards it, say, by invoking the commonplace but densely loaded term for 'antiquity' ('gu'?), while others would gaze upon the bygone world and interrogate it relentlessly for their own edification. Over the long first millennium BCE, in a profusion of bronze and stone inscriptions, silk manuscripts, and bamboo and wooden slips, a very expansive landscape of the past unfolded. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University 2011. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 202 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-197) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108425728 1108425720 |