Divided by a common language
Subtitle: factional conflict in late Northern Song China
By: Ari Daniel Levine.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780824832667
Subjects: Chinese language -- Political aspects -- History -- To 1500; China -- Politics and government -- 960-1279
Other titles: Factional conflict in late Northern Song China
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rhetoric of politics and the politics of rhetoric; title: Frames of reference: classical hermeneutics and historical analogism; title: Categorical propositions: faction theory and the political imagination of the Northern Song; title: Unified theories of division: factional rhetoric in the reform era, 1069-1085; title: The closed circle: factional rhetoric in the antireform era, 1085-1093; title: Retributive justice: factional rhetoric in the post-reform era, 1094-1104; title: Discourses of authority and the authority of discourse.