Savage Exchange

Savage Exchange
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 383
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781684170784
ISBN-13 : 1684170788
Rating : 4/5 (788 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Savage Exchange by : Tamara T. Chin

Download or read book Savage Exchange written by Tamara T. Chin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of frontiers and markets thus became part of a larger debate over the relationship between the world and the written word. These Han debates helped to shape the ways in which we now define and appreciate early Chinese literature and produced the foundational texts of Chinese economic thought. Each chapter in the book examines a key genre or symbolic practice (philosophy, fu-rhapsody, historiography, money, kinship) through which different groups sought to reshape the political economy. By juxtaposing well-known texts with recently excavated literary and visual materials, Chin elaborates a new literary and cultural approach to Chinese economic thought. Co-Winner, 2016 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association; Honorable Mention, 2016 Joseph Levenson Book Prize, Pre-1900 Category, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies


Savage Exchange Related Books

Savage Exchange
Language: en
Pages: 383
Authors: Tamara T. Chin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-26 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Savage Money
Language: en
Pages: 357
Authors: C.A. Gregory
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-08-02 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume is not simply another general theory of world system. It is a theoretically and ethnographically informed collection of essays which opens up new qu
Savage Economy
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Walter Wadiak
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-15 - Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance, Walter Wadiak traces the evolution of the medieval English romance from its thirteenth-century origins
Savage!
Language: en
Pages: 112
Authors: Jake Henry
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-24 - Publisher: Lulu.com

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In 1864, Captain Jeff Savage was tasked to find Carver's Raiders, a ruthless bunch of killers who blasted a bloody path through the Shenandoah Valley. The missi
Journal
Language: en
Pages: 1302
Authors: New Zealand. Dept. of Labour
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1895 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK