Between History and Philosophy - Anecdotes in Early China

Analyzes the use of anecdotes as an essential rhetorical tool and form of persuasion in various literary genres in early China.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Queen Els, Paul (EDT)/ Queen Van Els
• Assisted by: Paul van Els (Editor), Sarah A Queen (Editor), Sarah A. Queen (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781438466125
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-6612-5
• No. of pages: 386
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: SUNY Series in Chinese Philoso; SUNY Series in Chinese Philoso; Suny Chinese Philosophy and Cu; Suny Chinese Philosophy and Cu
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Anthologien (nicht Lyrik), Literature - Classics / Criticism, HISTORY / Asia / China, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese