TY - BOOK AU - Levine,Ari Daniel TI - Divided by a common language: factional conflict in late Northern Song China SN - 0824832663 AV - DS751.3 .L48 2008 U1 - 951.024 22 PY - 2008///] CY - Honolulu PB - University of Hawaiʻi Press KW - Chinese language KW - Political aspects KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - China KW - Politics and government KW - 960-1279 N1 - 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 ER -