Between history and philosophy : anecdotes in early China / edited by Paul van Els and Sarah A. Queen.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgments; Anecdotes in Early China; Characteristic Features of Anecdotes; Anecdotes in Early Chinese Texts; Time, Place, and Protagonists; Length; Historicity and Factuality; Variations and Valences; Framing Techniques; Genre; Anecdotes and Historical Genres; Anecdotes and Philosophical Genres; Anecdotes in this Volume; Part I: Anecdotes, Argumentation, and Debate; Part II: Anecdotes and Textual Formation; Part III: Anecdotes and History; Notes; Part I: Anecdotes, Argumentation, and Debate; 1. Non-deductive Argumentation in Early Chinese Philosophy; Paradox; Analogy.

Appeal to ExampleDeductive Reasoning; Notes; 2. The Frontier between Chen and Cai; Beyond Exempla: The Sojourn Narrative as Philosophical Reasoning; Inversions between Chen and Cai; Implications: Comparing the Philosophical Uses of Narrative in Early China and Ancient Greece; Conclusion; Notes; 3. Mozi as a Daoist Sage?; Inherent Tensions in the "Gongshu" Anecdote; The Body of the "Gongshu" Anecdote; The Ending of the "Gongshu" Anecdote; Tensions Introduced by the "Gongshu" Ending; Identifying the Discourse Circles of the "Gongshu" Anecdote; Discourse Circle A; Discourse Circle B; Conclusion.

Notes4. Anecdotal Barbarians in Early China; Cultural Refinement and Substance: How Much Culture Is Too Much Culture?; Tradition and Transformation; Rhetorical Contexts of Sino-Barbarian Boundaries; Conclusion; Notes; Part II: Anecdotes and Textual Formation; 5. Anecdote Collections as Argumentative Texts; The Textual Fabric of the Shuoyuan and the Question of Liu Xiang's Authorship; Liu Xiang's Memorial on the Occasion of Submitting the Shuoyuan to the Throne; Explanation and/or Persuasion? The Shuoyuan as a Discursive Text.

The Composition of Chapter 9, "Zhengjian" (Rectifying Remonstrance) in the ShuoyuanConclusion; Notes; 6. From Villains Outwitted to Pedants Out-Wrangled; Cluster A and Cluster C: Villains vs. Pedants; Tracing Transition in Cluster B; Conclusion; Notes; 7. The Limits of Praise and Blame; A Typology of Gongyang Narratives; Worthy Protectors; The Righteous Kongfu Jia of Song; The Fearless Qiu Mu of Song; The Trustworthy Xun Xi of Jin; Worthy Avengers; Ji You of Lu; Worthy Regents; Duke Yin's Regency; Worthy Abdicators; Ji Zha of Wu; Devotees of Ritual Propriety and Trustworthiness.

Conclusion: Anecdote as Historiographical MuseNotes; Part III: Anecdotes and History; 8. History without Anecdotes; The Riddle of Boredom: Non-anecdotal Narratives in the Zuozhuan; The Xinian: Introduction; Non-moralizing History: The Xinian vs. Zuozhuan Narratives; The Xinian and Chu Historiography; Summary: Non-anecdotal Historiography; Notes; 9. Cultural Memory and Excavated Anecdotes in "Documentary" Narrative; The Baoxun and Its Modern Classification; The Baoxun; The Frame; Genre; The Primary Narrative; Anecdotes; Discussion and Conclusion; Notes; 10. Old Stories No Longer Told.

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