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, United Kingdom, New York, NY, Port Melbourne, Australia, New Delhi, India
Cambridge University Press
2020
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| Ausgabe: | First paperback edition |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "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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| Beschreibung: | xii, 202 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781108425728 978-1-108-42572-8 9781108443241 978-1-108-44324-1 |