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Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)
Tamara T. Chin
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Description for Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)
Hardcover. Tamara T. Chin explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance ("Silk Road") markets. Chin explains why rival political groups introduced new literary forms with which to represent these expanded markets. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 382 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSB; HBJF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 646.
Savage Exchange explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance (“Silk Road”) markets. Tamara T. Chin explains why rival political groups introduced new literary forms with which to represent these expanded markets. To promote a radically quantitative approach to the market, some thinkers developed innovative forms of fiction and genre. In opposition, traditionalists reasserted the authority of classical texts and advocated a return to the historical, ethics-centered, marriage-based, agricultural economy that these texts described. The discussion ... Read more
Savage Exchange explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance (“Silk Road”) markets. Tamara T. Chin explains why rival political groups introduced new literary forms with which to represent these expanded markets. To promote a radically quantitative approach to the market, some thinkers developed innovative forms of fiction and genre. In opposition, traditionalists reasserted the authority of classical texts and advocated a return to the historical, ethics-centered, marriage-based, agricultural economy that these texts described. The discussion ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
Series
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674417199
SKU
V9780674417199
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About Tamara T. Chin
Tamara T. Chin is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies at Brown University.
Reviews for Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)
Every now and then, the collective scholarly consciousness is stirred up by a new book that makes unexpected connections among well-known ‘facts’ and thereby fundamentally changes the perception of an entire epoch. Tamara Chin’s Savage Exchange is such a book.
Lothar von Falkenhausen
Journal of Chinese Studies
Tamara Chin vividly illuminates the imbrication of rhetorical idioms, literary ... Read more
Lothar von Falkenhausen
Journal of Chinese Studies
Tamara Chin vividly illuminates the imbrication of rhetorical idioms, literary ... Read more