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Savage exchange : Han imperialism, Chinese literary style, and the economic imagination
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"Explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE), a pivotal time when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and lon...
"Explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE), a pivotal time when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance markets. By juxtaposing well-known texts with recently excavated literary and visual materials, the author elaborates a new literary and cultural approach to Chinese economic thought"--
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- Creator
- Tamara T. Chin
- Format
- Books
- Languages
- English, Chinese
- Publication
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- Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2014
- ©2014
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 363 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781684170784, 9780674417199, 1684170788, 0674417194
- OCLC
- ocn876010416, on1132688246, ocn999606459
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Savage exchange -- [Part 1] Genres -- Abstraction : Qingzhong economics, literary fiction, and masters dialogue -- Quantification : poetic expenditure in the epideictic Fu -- Competition : historiography, ethnography, and narrative regulation -- [Part 2] Practices -- Alienation : kinship in the world economy -- 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
Subjects
- Chinese literature -- Qin and Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D. -- History and criticism.
- Imperialism -- Social aspects -- China -- History -- To 1500.
- Imperialism -- Economic aspects -- China -- History -- To 1500.
- Economics and literature -- China -- History -- To 1500.
- Politics and literature -- China -- History -- To 1500.
- Commerce in literature.
- China -- History -- Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.
- China -- Commerce -- History.
- China -- Economic conditions -- To 1644.
- China -- Territorial expansion.