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Savage exchange : Han imperialism, Chinese literary style, and the economic imagination / Tamara T. Chin

Chin, Tamara T., 1975-

Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard University Asia Center, 2014

XIV, 363 S. : Ill., Kt. ; 24 cm

Englisch

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online-Ausg.: Savage exchange / Chin, Tamara T.

978-0-674-41719-9 ((hardcover : acid-free paper)); 0-674-41719-4 ((hardcover : acid-free paper))

2014011090

9780674417199

OCoLC: 897759140     

OCoLC: 897759140 (aus SWB)     

PL2284

895.109/0022 ; 306.09     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 15.79 (China) <Geschichte> ; 71.52 (Kulturelle Prozesse) <Soziologie> ; 71.42 (Wirtschaftliche Faktoren) <Soziologie>

*China ; Handynastie ; Expansionspolitik ; Handel ; Kulturaustausch ; Rezeption ; Literatur ; Hochschulschrift      Zum Register

LOC-SH: 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 ; Chinese literature -- History and criticism -- Qin and Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D ; Imperialism -- Social aspects -- History -- To 1500 -- China ; Imperialism -- Economic aspects -- History -- To 1500 -- China ; Economics and literature -- History -- To 1500 -- China ; Politics and literature -- History -- To 1500 -- China ; Commerce in literature ; Han Dynasty (China) ; Chinese literature -- Qin and Han dynasties ; Commerce ; Commerce in literature ; Economic history ; Economics and literature ; Imperialism -- Economic aspects ; Imperialism -- Social aspects ; Politics and literature ; Territorial expansion ; China -- History -- Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D ; China -- Commerce -- History ; China -- Economic conditions -- To 1644 ; China -- Territorial expansion -- China -- Criticism, interpretation, etc -- History

"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"--