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Author Chin, Tamara T

Title Savage Exchange Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination
Published Boston : BRILL, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (383 p.)
Series Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law Ser
Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law Ser
Contents Intro -- Savage Exchange: HAN IMPERIALISM, CHINESE LITERARY STYLE, AND THE ECONOMIC IMAGINATION -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Introduction: Savage Exchange -- GENRES -- 1. Abstraction: Qingzhong Economics, Literary Fiction, and Masters Dialogue -- 2. Quantification: Poetic Expenditure in the Epideictic Fu -- 3. Competition: Historiography, Ethnography, and Narrative Regulation -- PRACTICES -- 4. Alienation: Kinship in the World Economy -- 5. 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 -- Bibliography -- Index -- Harvard- Yenching Institute Monograph Series
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Chinese literature -- Qin and Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D. -- History and criticism
Chinese literature -- Qin and Han dynasties
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1684170788
9781684170784