Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance : Essays on the Shishuo xinyu /
"This book is a study of the Shishuo xinyu, the most important anecdotal collection of medieval China-and arguably of the entire traditional era. In a set of interconnected essays, Jack W. Chen offers new readings of the Shishuo xinyu that draw upon social network analysis, performance studies,...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Asia Center,
2021.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The title of the text
- The structure and composition of the text
- Andecdote and history
- Individualism and typology
- The Shishuo and "pure conversation"
- Overview of chapters
- 1. A textual history of the Shishuo xinyu
- The Shi Jingyin and Liu Ziaobiao commentaries
- Liu Yiqing's biography
- The Shishuo in the bibliographic treatises of the official histories
- The Shishuo in the Tang dynasty
- The Shishuo in Song dynasty encyclopedias and bibliographic writings
- Wang Zao (1079-1154) on the Shishuo
- The Dong Fen, Lu You, and Yuan Jiong editions
- Modern editions of the Shishuo
- Conclusion : On medieval textuality
- 2. On social networks
- The Shishuo as network
- Six degrees of separation, or a walk through the network
- First degree : Xu Zhi and Chen Fan
- Second degree : Chen Fan, Li Ying, and Cai Yong
- Third degree : Cai Yong, Sun Chuo, and Wang Xizhi
- Fourth degree : Wang Xizhi and Xie An
- Fifth degree : Xie An, Wang Xianzhi, Liu Jin, and Huan Xuan
- Sixth degree : Huan Xiu, and Madame Yu
- Conclusion : Network and andecdote
- 3. 0n gossip and reputation
- Defining gossip and reputation
- Gossip and anecdote : Four stories about Hua Xin
- Knowing others and being known : Chu Pou's silence
- The Mingshi or "gentlemen of repute"
- Conclusion : The anxiety of the second-rate
- 4. On performance, praise, and insult
- On praise and appraisal
- The politics of praise
- Virtuosity, aptness, and inadequacy
- Theories of insult
- Taking liberties with pronouns
- Three stories about Sun Chuo
- Unintended offense
- Conclusion : The economy of reputation
- 5. On competition and composure
- Three stories about Zhong Hui
- Conversation on social competition
- The aesthetics of composure
- Xie An : Calling back the recluse
- Xie An keeps his cool
- Conclusion : Wang Dun goes to the bathroom
- 6. On ritual and mourning
- Mourning and sincerity in the Li ji
- The sincerity of mourning
- Friendship and mourning
- A coda
- Conclusion : The view from across the river.