Divided by a common language : factional conflict in late Northern Song China /

Levine, Ari Daniel,

Divided by a common language : factional conflict in late Northern Song China / Factional conflict in late Northern Song China Ari Daniel Levine. - xvi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261) and index.

The rhetoric of politics and the politics of rhetoric -- Frames of reference: classical hermeneutics and historical analogism -- Categorical propositions: faction theory and the political imagination of the Northern Song -- Unified theories of division: factional rhetoric in the reform era, 1069-1085 -- The closed circle: factional rhetoric in the antireform era, 1085-1093 -- Retributive justice: factional rhetoric in the post-reform era, 1094-1104 -- Discourses of authority and the authority of discourse.

0824832663 9780824832667

2008018672


Chinese language--Political aspects--History--To 1500.


China--Politics and government--960-1279

DS751.3 / .L48 2008

951.024

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