Rhetoric of Hiddenness in Traditional Chinese Culture

Informationen zum Autor Paula M. Varsano is Associate Professor of Chinese at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Tracking the Banished Immortal: The Poetry of Li Bo and Its Critical Reception . Klappentext This volume brings together fourteen essays that explore the role of hiddenness-as both an object and a mode of representation-in the history of cultural production in China from the Warring States Period (403-221 BCE) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1911) and beyond. The rhetorical use of various forms of hiddenness makes its appearance in literary, political, philosophical, and religious writings, as well as in the visual arts. Working in fields as disparate as traditional Chinese literature, religion, philosophy, history, medicine, and art, the contributors attempt to characterize one of the fundamental signifying practices in traditional Chinese cultural production. In the process, they not only reveal otherwise obscure patterns connecting longstanding social, political, aesthetic, and epistemological practices, but also contribute to ongoing discussions-well beyond the field of China studies-regarding the representation and communicability of knowledge, as well as the practices controlling its dissemination.

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• Authors: Paula M. Varsano, Paula M. (EDT) Varsano
• Assisted by: Paula M Varsano (Editor), Paula M. Varsano (Editor), Varsano Paula M. (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781438463032
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-6303-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: SUNY Series in Chinese Philoso; Suny Chinese Philosophy and Cu; SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Asia / China, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, ART / Asian / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, ART / Asian / Chinese, Chinese, History of Art, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, East Asia, Far East, Asian History, Oriental art