Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Savage Exchange: HAN IMPERIALISM, CHINESE LITERARY STYLE, AND THE ECONOMIC IMAGINATION
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Conventions
  • Introduction: Savage Exchange
  • GENRES
  • 1. Abstraction: Qingzhong Economics, Literary Fiction, and Masters Dialogue
  • 2. Quantification: Poetic Expenditure in the Epideictic Fu
  • 3. Competition: Historiography, Ethnography, and Narrative Regulation
  • PRACTICES
  • 4. Alienation: Kinship in the World Economy
  • 5. Commensuration: Counter- Practices of Money
  • Coda: Counterhistory, Connected Histories, and Comparative Literature
  • Appendix: Numismatic Research on the Han Dynasty Lead Ingots with Blundered Greek (or Foreign) Inscription
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Harvard- Yenching Institute Monograph Series