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Honor and Shame in Early China

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Availability:In StockContributor:Mark Edward LewisPublish date:2021-04-08Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108843690ISBN-10:1108843697UPC:9781108843690Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AsiaSize:9.20 x 7.70 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCX2CWV3NJ
In this major new study, Mark Edward Lewis traces how the changing language of honor and shame helped to articulate and justify transformations in Chinese society between the Warring States and the end of the Han dynasty. Through careful examination of a wide variety of texts, he demonstrates how honor-shame discourse justified the actions of diverse and potentially rival groups. Over centuries, the formally recognized political order came to be intertwined with groups articulating alternative models of honor. These groups both participated in the existing order and, through their own visions of what was truly honourable, paved the way for subsequent political structures. Filling a major lacuna in the study of early China, Lewis presents ways in which the early Chinese empires can be fruitfully considered in comparative context and develops a more systematic understanding of the fundamental role of honor/shame in shaping states and societies.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108843690ISBN-10:1108843697UPC:9781108843690Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AsiaSize:9.20 x 7.70 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCX2CWV3NJ
Lewis, Mark Edward: - Mark Edward Lewis is Kwoh-ting Li Professor of Chinese Culture at Stanford University.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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