763 records matched your query
03863aam a2200469 i 4500 001 1EDFB522F47811EDA3FB15433FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230517010023 008 221128s2023 mau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022049727 020 $a 0674291379 020 $a 9780674291379 035 $a (OCoLC)1345221753 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a DS748.62 $b .R34 2023 082 00 $a 951/.015 $2 23/eng/20230110 100 1 $a Raft, Zeb, $e author. 245 14 $a The threshold : $b the rhetoric of historiography in early medieval China / $c Zeb Raft. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts ; $b Harvard University Asia Center, $c 2023. 300 $a viii, 268 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; $v 136 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t The Exigence of Incompletion. $t The Historical Actor and the Rhetoric of Interiority -- $t The Threat of Exteriorization, and Defense Against It -- $t Role, Type, and Rhetoric -- $t The Abuse of Liu Muzhi -- $t The Use of Liu Muzhi -- $t Written into History -- $t A Grammar of Officialdom -- $t Rhetoric $t Exigence: Wang Hong Opens the Debate -- $t Exposition: Speakers One and Two Set the Terms -- $t Gentry Reasoning Speaker Four: A More Perfect Gentry Casuistry -- $t The Righteous Contrarian -- $t The Orchestrator Returns -- $t Into the Historical Frame -- $t The Documentary Motive -- $t Historiography as Public and Private Interest -- $t The Exigence of Incompletion. 520 $a "What happens when historiography-the way historical events are committed to writing-shapes historical events as they occur? How do we read biography when it is truly "life-writing," its subjects fully engaged with the historiographical rhetoric that would record their words and deeds? The Threshold, a study of the culture of historiography in early medieval China, explores these questions through the lens of the History of Liu-Song, a dynastic history compiled in 488 and covering the first three-quarters of the fifth century. Rhetoric courses through early medieval historiography: from the way a historian framed history for readers to the political machinations contained within historical narratives, from the active use of rhetorical techniques to the passive effect that embedded discourses exercised on historian, historical actor, and reader alike. Tracing these varied strands of historical argumentation, Zeb Raft shows how history was constructed through rhetorical elements including the narration of officialdom, the anecdote, and, above all, the historical document. The portrait that emerges is of an epideictic historiography where praise was mixed with irony and achievement diluted with ambivalence-and where the most secure positions lay on the threshold of political power and historical interpretation"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Shen, Yue, $d 441-513. $t Song shu. 650 0 $a Rhetoric $x History $z China $x History $y To 1500. 651 0 $a China $x Historiography. $y Liu Song dynasty, 420-479 $x Historiography. 651 0 $a China $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 630 07 $a Song shu (Shen, Yue) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01371796 650 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00832149 650 7 $a Historiography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00958221 650 7 $a Rhetoric $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01096959 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 648 7 $a To 1500 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; $v 136. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117024144.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1EDFB522F47811EDA3FB15433FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search