Myth and the making of history : narrating early China with Sarah Allan / edited by Constance A. Cook, Christopher J. Foster, and Susan Blader ; associate editor, Amy Matthewson.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2024]
Description
xvi, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Honoree
    Series
    SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "Sheds new light on the relationship between myth and history in ancient China and the central role it has played in the Chinese historical imagination"-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • The Place of Yi Yin in the Shang Pantheon / Zhu Fenghan
    • Cao E, the Filial Water Goddess : gender and text in the promotion of a two-thousand-year-old cult / Robin D. S. Yates
    • An examination of commentaries to Analects 7.14, "Confucius listened to the Shao performance in Qi" / Wang Yunfei
    • Xia-Shang-Zhou chronology project and archaeological research on the Xia / Li Boqian
    • Formation of the "nine continents" according to the tribute payments recorded on oracle bone and bronze inscriptions / Shen Jianhua
    • The Tsinghua University yue gong qi shi manuscript and township administration in the state of Yue during the Spring and Autumn Period / Wang Jinfeng
    • Marriage and social networks in Zhou China : reflections on the rules governing female names in bronze inscriptions / Li Feng
    • The faces of Cao Gui : fact and meaning in Warring States and early Han historiography / Andrew Meyer
    • Historical narratives in early Chinese classics : the case of the "Great king leaving bin" in transmitted texts and the bamboo slips of the Zhou Xun / Cui Xiaojiao
    • Rebuilding King Wen : paratext as intellectual biography in the Yi Zhoushi preface / Paul Nicholas Vogt
    • Forging a "meta-tradition" : the distinctive philosophy of the Huainanzi / Harold D. Roth.
    ISBN
    • 9781438497686 (hardcover)
    • 1438497687 (hardcover)
    LCCN
    2023042746
    OCLC
    1408649321
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