Format:
XIV, 363 Seiten :
,
Illustrationen ;
,
24 cm.
ISBN:
978-0-674-41719-9
,
0-674-41719-4
,
978-0-674-24452-8
Series Statement:
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series 94
Content:
"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"--
Note:
hier auch unveränderte Nachauflagen. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - 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
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Handynastie
;
Politische Ökonomie
;
Literatur
;
Geschichtsschreibung
;
Hochschulschrift
