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Ban Gu's history of early China
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Title
Ban Gu's history of early China / Anthony E. Clark.
ISBN
9781604975611 (alk. paper)
160497561X (alk. paper)
Published
Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press, c2008.
Physical Description
xix, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 26, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-286) and index.
Contents
Inscribing the past: a history of Chinese history
The perennial dangers of direct criticism
Praise, blame, and the modes of judgment
Inscribing the text: a history of the history of the Han
"True editions" and Qing skepticism
Structure and sources of the history of the Han
Accretions and additions
From Han to PRC: filiations of transmission
Inscribing the family: a history of the Ban clan
Ban Gu, Sima Qian, and rewriting the past
Inscribing genealogy
Ban Bo and the family's rise to a consort clan
Narrating through the dangers of court
Historicizing advantage: highlighting privilege, loyalty, and influence
Inscribing the self: ban gu's positioning of text and self
Eclipse of the imperial family: Wang Mang and the Liu eviction
Constructing Wang Mang: duplicity, omenology, and despotism
Inheriting family principles in the wake of political collapse
Ban Gu: filial son and favored historian
A new heaven, a new mandate
Inscribing the state: killing snakes, chasing deer, and reconceiving heaven's mandate
Heaven and its mandate: earlier assumptions and later innovations
Killing snakes: legitimizing the Han's mandate
Chasing deer: a predetermined and permanent mandate
Zan : a final appraisal.
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