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An edition of Ban Gu's History of Early China (2008)

Ban Gu's History of Early China

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Cambria Press
Language
English
Pages
302

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Ban Gu's History of Early China
2008, Cambria Press
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Table of 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 though 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Amherst, NY

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
931/.04
Library of Congress
DS748 .P38 C53 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
302

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22501919M
ISBN 13
9781604975611
LCCN
2008037847
OCLC/WorldCat
244567200
Goodreads
7133289

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