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Savage exchange : Han imperialism, Chinese literary style, and the economic imagination /

"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 ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chin, Tamara T., 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Chino
Publicado: Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2014.
Colección:Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 94.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.