Savage Exchange Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Electronic Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Boston :
BRILL,
2014
|
Series: | Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law Ser
|
Subjects: |
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