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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Cambridge ; New York :
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Beyond didacticism : methods and perspectives
- Time out of joint : uses of the past from the Western Zhou to the early Warring States
- A parenthetical past : deep history and anti-history in the late Warring States
- Specter of the past : bureaucratic amnesia under the rise of the Qin empire
- The rehabilitation of antiquity in the early Han empire
- Sima Qian's critical past.