The Politics of the Past in Early China

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Time out of joint: uses of the past from the Western Zhou to the early warring states; 2. A parenthetical past: deep history and anti-history in the late warring states; 3. Specter of the past: bureaucratic amnesia under the Rise of the Qin Empire; 4. The rehabilitation of antiquity in the early Han Empire; 5. Sima Qian's critical past; Epilogue.

About the author

Vincent S. Leung is Associate Professor of Chinese history at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Summary

This is a study of the political uses of the past in early China. Engaging with a variety of historical materials, including inscriptional records, excavated manuscripts, and transmitted texts, it is a wide-ranging exploration of the fraught relationship between politics and historical imagination in ancient China.

Product details

• Authors: Vincent S. Leung, Vincent S. (Lingnan University Leung
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781108443241
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44324-1
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 350 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; China, Antike, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, History of Ideas, Politik und Staat, Vorzeit, Frühgeschichte vor Christi Geburt, Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie, HISTORY / Asia / General, Politics & government, Historiography, Politics and government, Ancient History, Asian History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Early China; Historiography; Empires; Imperialism; Politics