Honor and Shame in Early China Honor and Shame in Early China

Honor and Shame in Early China

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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.

GENRE
Geschiedenis
UITGEGEVEN
2020
10 december
TAAL
EN
Engels
LENGTE
582
Pagina's
UITGEVER
Cambridge University Press
GROOTTE
23,4
MB

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