Han imperialism, Chinese literary style, and the economic imagination /
Tamara T. Chin.
Cambridge (Massachusetts) :
Harvard University Asia Center,
2014.
xiv, 363 pages :
illustrations, map ;
24 cm
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;
94
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-350) 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.
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"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"--
Chinese literature-- Qin and Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D.-- History and criticism.
Commerce in literature.
Economics and literature-- China-- History-- To 1500.
Imperialism-- Economic aspects-- China-- History-- To 1500.
Imperialism-- Social aspects-- China-- History-- To 1500.
Politics and literature-- China-- History-- To 1500.