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