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Facing the Monarch

Modes of Advice in the Early Chinese Court

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ISBN 9780674726710

Publication Date: 10/21/2013

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  • Introduction
  • 1. Functionary Speech: On the Work of Shi [Chinese character 1] and Shi [Chinese character 2] [David Schaberg]
  • 2. Three Rhetorical Modes in Pre-Qin Court Remonstrances [Su-ching Chang]
  • 3. From Teachers to Subjects: Ministers Speaking to the Rulers, from Yan Ying [Chinese] to Li Si [Chinese] [Yuri Pines]
  • 4. Riddles, Concealment, and Rhetoric in Early China [Wai-yee Li]
  • 5. How Did Ministers Err? [Garret P. S. Olberding]
  • 6. The Rhetoric of Dong Zhongshu’s Imperial Communications [Sarah A. Queen]
  • 7. Kinship and Kingship in Han China: The 120 CE Case against Liu Chang, King of Lecheng [Griet Vankeerberghen]
  • 8. Yang Xiong’s [Chinese] Final Fayan [Chinese] Chapter: Rhetoric to What End and for Whom? [Michael Nylan]
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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