Savage Exchange
Subtitle: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
Published: 2014
Language: eng; chi
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780674417199
Subjects: Chinese literature, history and criticism; Imperialism; Politics and literature; China, history, han dynasty, 202 b.c.-220 a.d.; China, commerce; China, economic conditions
Description: "Explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE), a pivotal time when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance markets. By juxtaposing well-known texts with recently excavated literary and visual materials, the author elaborates a new literary and cultural approach to Chinese economic thought"--