Ban Gu's History of Early China
By: by Anthony E. Clark.
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781604975611
Subjects: Ban, Gu, -- 32-92; Historiography -- China; China -- History -- Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Inscribing the past: a history of Chinese history; title: The perennial dangers of direct criticism; title: Praise, blame, and the modes of judgment; title: Inscribing the text: a history of the history of the Han; title: "True editions" and Qing skepticism; title: Structure and sources of the history of the Han; title: Accretions and additions; title: From Han to PRC: filiations of transmission; title: Inscribing the family: a history of the Ban clan; title: Ban Gu, Sima Qian, and rewriting the past; title: Inscribing genealogy; title: Ban Bo and the family's rise to a consort clan; title: Narrating though the dangers of court; title: Historicizing advantage: highlighting privilege, loyalty, and influence; title: Inscribing the self: ban gu's positioning of text and self; title: Eclipse of the imperial family: Wang Mang and the Liu eviction; title: Constructing Wang Mang: duplicity, omenology, and despotism; title: Inheriting family principles in the wake of political collapse; title: Ban Gu: filial son and favored historian; title: A new heaven, a new mandate; title: Inscribing the state: killing snakes, chasing deer, and reconceiving; title: Heaven's mandate; title: Heaven and its mandate: earlier assumptions and later innovations; title: Killing snakes: legitimizing the Han's mandate; title: Chasing deer: a predetermined and permanent mandate; title: Zan : a final appraisal.