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Savage exchange : Han imperialism, Chinese literary style, and the economic imagination
Title
Savage exchange : Han imperialism, Chinese literary style, and the economic imagination / Tamara T. Chin.
ISBN
9780674417199 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
0674417194 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
Publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2014.
Copyright Notice Date
©2014
Physical Description
xiv, 363 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE), a pivotal time when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance markets. By juxtaposing well-known texts with recently excavated literary and visual materials, the author elaborates a new literary and cultural approach to Chinese economic thought"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English; Chinese
Added to Catalog
November 03, 2014
Series
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 94
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Savage exchange
[Part 1] Genres
Abstraction : Qingzhong economics, literary fiction, and masters dialogue
Quantification : poetic expenditure in the epideictic Fu
Competition : historiography, ethnography, and narrative regulation
[Part 2] Practices
Alienation : kinship in the world economy
Commensuration : counter-practices of money
Coda: Counterhistory, connected histories, and comparative literature
Appendix: Numismatic research on the Han dynasty lead ingots with blundered Greek (or foreign) inscription.
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