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The Making of Song Dynasty History - Sources and Narratives, 960-1279 CE (Hardcover)
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The Making of Song Dynasty History - Sources and Narratives, 960-1279 CE (Hardcover)
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In this ambitious work of political and intellectual history,
Charles Hartman surveys the major sources that survive as vestiges
of the official dynastic historiography of the Chinese Song dynasty
(960-1279). Analyzing the narratives that emerge from these sources
as products of Song political discourse, Hartman offers a thorough
introduction to the texts and the political circumstances
surrounding their compilation. Distilling from these sources a
'grand allegory of Song history', he argues that the narratives
embedded within reflect tension between a Confucian model of
political institutionalism and the Song court's preference for a
non-sectarian, technocratic model. Fundamentally rethinking the
corpus of texts that have formed the basis of our understanding of
the Song and of imperial China more broadly, this far-reaching
account of historiographical process and knowledge production
illuminates the relationship between official history writing and
political struggle in China.
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