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Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)

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Description for Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series) Hardcover. Tamara T. Chin explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance ("Silk Road") markets. Chin explains why rival political groups introduced new literary forms with which to represent these expanded markets. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 382 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSB; HBJF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 646.
Savage Exchange explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance (“Silk Road”) markets. Tamara T. Chin explains why rival political groups introduced new literary forms with which to represent these expanded markets. To promote a radically quantitative approach to the market, some thinkers developed innovative forms of fiction and genre. In opposition, traditionalists reasserted the authority of classical texts and advocated a return to the historical, ethics-centered, marriage-based, agricultural economy that these texts described. The discussion ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
Series
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674417199
SKU
V9780674417199
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About Tamara T. Chin
Tamara T. Chin is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies at Brown University.

Reviews for Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)
Every now and then, the collective scholarly consciousness is stirred up by a new book that makes unexpected connections among well-known ‘facts’ and thereby fundamentally changes the perception of an entire epoch. Tamara Chin’s Savage Exchange is such a book.
Lothar von Falkenhausen
Journal of Chinese Studies
Tamara Chin vividly illuminates the imbrication of rhetorical idioms, literary ... Read more

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