Between History and Philosophy - Anecdotes in Early China

Informationen zum Autor Paul van Els is University Lecturer of China Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and the author of The Wenzi : Creation, Manipulation, and Reception of a Chinese Philosophical Text . Sarah A. Queen is Professor of History at Connecticut College and the coeditor (with Michael Puett) of The Huainanzi and Textual Production in Early China . Klappentext Analyzes the use of anecdotes as an essential rhetorical tool and form of persuasion in various literary genres in early China.

Product details

• Authors: Paul (EDT)/ Queen Van Els
• Assisted by: Paul van Els (Editor), Sarah A Queen (Editor), Sarah A. Queen (Editor), Paul Van Els (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781438466118
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-6611-8
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Series: SUNY Series in Chinese Philoso; Suny Chinese Philosophy and Cu
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous