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paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The Cloudy Mirror: Tension and Conflict in the Writings of Sima Qian (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

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Paperback. Condizione: New. Sima Qian's writings have influenced the Chinese for over 2,000 years and still serve as a fiscal source of historical information about China.Sima Qian's vast Records of the Historian is the first comprehensive history of China and has exerted an immense influence both upon our understanding of the Chinese past and also upon the style and structure of subsequent Chinese historiography. In addition to his contribution as a historian, Sima Qian is a highly significant literary figure whose writings are among the most elegant and powerful from the ancient world.Durrant's study approaches Sima Qian's work from a literary perspective and demonstrates the relationship between Sima's narrative of the past and his narrative of his own life. That life was a fascinating and complex one. Enjoined by his father to complete a comprehensive history of China, Sima Qian subsequently offended the great Emperor Wu and was sentenced to castration. Rather than take the "noble path" of suicide, he suffered this traumatic punishment and lived on to fulfill his father's injunction-but not without emotional scars, scars that influenced his portrayal of the Chinese past. In fact, the great Han historian's account of the Chinese past, this study argues, is as much his story as it is history.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Sima Qian's writings have influenced the Chinese for over 2,000 years and still serve as a fiscal source of historical information about China. Sima Qian's writings have influenced the Chinese for over 2,000 years and still serve as a fiscal source of historical information about China. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Soft cover. Condizione: New. viii, 305 pages : 23 cm. Contents: Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking through Comparisons Contents Introduction 1. What Has Athens to Do with Alexandria? or Why Sinoloists Can't Get Along with(out) Philosophers 2. No Time Like the Present: The Category of Contemporaneity in Chinese Studies 3. Humans and Gods: The Theme of Self-Divinization in Early China and Early Greece 4. "These Three Come Forth Together, But are Differently Named": Laozi, Zhuangzi, Plato 5. Thinking through Comparisons: Analytical and Narrative Methods for Cultural Understanding 6. Alluding to the Text, or the Context. 7. Epistemology in Cultural Context: Disguise and Deception in Early China and Early Greece 8. The Logic of Signs in Early Chinese Rhetoric 9. Means and Means: A Comparative Reading of Aristotle's Ethics and the Zhongyong 10. Fatalism, Fate, and Stratagem in China and Greece 11. Cratylus and Xunzi on Names 12. Golden Spindles and Axes: Elite Women inthe Achaemenid and Han Empires 13. Creating Tradition: Sima Qian Agonistes? Contributors Index.…

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