TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clark,Anthony E.
TI  - Ban Gu's history of early China
SN  - 9781624991561 (electronic bk.)
AV  - DS748.P38 C53 2008eb
U1  - 931/.04 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Amherst, NY
PB  - Cambria Press
KW  - Ban, Gu,
KW  - Ban, Gu.
KW  - Hanshu
KW  - swd
KW  - Historiography
KW  - China
KW  - Geschichtsschreibung
KW  - Handynastie
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / China
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History
KW  - Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Inscribing the past: a history of Chinese history -- The perennial dangers of direct criticism -- Praise, blame, and the modes of judgment -- Inscribing the text: a history of the history of the Han -- "True editions" and Qing skepticism -- Structure and sources of the history of the Han -- Accretions and additions -- From Han to PRC: filiations of transmission -- Inscribing the family: a history of the Ban clan -- Ban Gu, Sima Qian, and rewriting the past -- Inscribing genealogy -- Ban Bo and the family's rise to a consort clan -- Narrating though the dangers of court -- Historicizing advantage: highlighting privilege, loyalty, and influence -- Inscribing the self: ban gu's positioning of text and self -- Eclipse of the imperial family: Wang Mang and the Liu eviction -- Constructing Wang Mang: duplicity, omenology, and despotism -- Inheriting family principles in the wake of political collapse -- Ban Gu: filial son and favored historian -- A new heaven, a new mandate -- Inscribing the state: killing snakes, chasing deer, and reconceiving -- Heaven's mandate -- Heaven and its mandate: earlier assumptions and later innovations -- Killing snakes: legitimizing the Han's mandate -- Chasing deer: a predetermined and permanent mandate -- Zan : a final appraisal
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