The Pheasant Cap Master (He Guan Zi): A Rhetorical Reading (S U N Y Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) - Softcover

Defoort, Carine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 079143074X ISBN 13: 9780791430743

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 1996

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Preface Note on Citations 1. Pheasant Cap Master and the Paradox of Unity 1.1. Expectations of Unity 1.2. A Celebration of Fragments Part One: The Pheasant Cap Master as a Fragmented Text 2. Biographical Evidence and Expectations Concerning Unity of Authorship 2.1. Place of Origin in Biographical and Bibliographical Notices 2.2. He guan zi's Place of Origin and Dates 2.3. Further Considerations Concerning Authorship 3. Bibliographical Evidence and Expectations Concerning Unity of Length and Filiation 3.1. The Length of the Pheasant Cap Master 3.2. The Filiation of the Pheasant Cap Master 3.3. The Conflation Hypothesis 3.4. Further Discussion Concerning Filiation 4. Commentarial Evidence and Expectations Concerning Stylistic Unity 4.1. Comments on a Work of Poor Style 4.2. Commentaries on the Pheasant Cap Master 4.3. From Poor Style to Plagiarism 5. Textual Evidence and Expectations Concerning Textual Unity 5.1. A Corrupt Text 5.2. From Textual Corruption to Commentarial Interpolation 5.3. Indirect Evidence 5.4. Direct Evidence Part Two: The Pheasant Cap Master as a Rhetorical Text 6. A Work of Positive Rhetoric 6.1. Rhetoric, Politics, and Frustration 6.2. Admonishment of the Ruler 6.3. The Ruler and the Sage 6.4. Explaining Political Failure 7. Rhetorical Use of Language 7.1. With the Power of Words 7.2. Redefinitions as Arguments 7.3. Further Instances of the Power of Language 8. Political Views on Language 8.1. Discussions about Names 8.2. The Source of Names 8.3. Norms for Naming 9. Beyond Names 9.1. Laws of Nature 9.2. The Unnamed Source of Names 9.3. Naming from the Unnamed Appendix 1. Taboos: the Distribution of zheng and duan in the He guan zi Appendix 2. The Distribution of Names in the He guan zi Appendix 3. Bibliographical Evidence in Sources from the Han through the Yuan Appendix 4. Indirect Evidence in Sources Predating the First Extant Complete Edition Appendix 5. The Chapters of the He guan zi Notes Bibliography Original Text of The Pheasant Cap Master Index

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Carine Defoort is Associate Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies, Sinology at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.

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This is an exceptionally thorough, clear, and well-structured account of an important early Chinese text that has been largely overlooked by most scholars because of doubts about its authenticity and difficulties with its textual integrity - issues now largely clarified by this study. The focus here is not only on what the 'he guan zi' says, but how things are said, and how language is used in argumentation.

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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 079143074X
• ISBN 13: 9780791430743
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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