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Title The rhetoric of hiddenness in traditional Chinese culture / edited by Paula M. Varsano
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Contents Introduction The Throw of Infancy; Notes; The Life of a Phrase Infancy, Renunciation, Passing; From the Beginning; The Exigency of Renunciation: Event and Return; Renunciation and Survival; Notes; Index of Names
Summary "Considers the role of hiddenness in the history of cultural production in premodern China. This volume brings together fourteen essays that explore the role of hiddenness--as both an object and a mode of representation--in the history of cultural production in China from the Warring States Period (403-221 BCE) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1911) and beyond. The rhetorical use of various forms of hiddenness makes its appearance in literary, political, philosophical, and religious writings, as well as in the visual arts. Working in fields as disparate as traditional Chinese literature, religion, philosophy, history, medicine, and art, the contributors attempt to characterize one of the fundamental signifying practices in traditional Chinese cultural production. In the process, they not only reveal otherwise obscure patterns connecting longstanding social, political, aesthetic, and epistemological practices, but also contribute to ongoing discussions--well beyond the field of China studies--regarding the representation and communicability of knowledge, as well as the practices controlling its dissemination"--Publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Rhetoric -- China -- History
Secrecy -- China -- History
Hiding places -- China -- History
Knowledge, Theory of.
epistemology.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Hiding places
Intellectual life
Knowledge, Theory of
Rhetoric
Secrecy
SUBJECT China -- Intellectual life -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024141
China -- Intellectual life -- 960-1644. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024142
China -- Intellectual life -- 1644-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024143
Subject China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Varsano, Paula M., editor
LC no. 2016038163
ISBN 9781438463049
1438463049