Case studies fascinate because they link individual instances to
general patterns and knowledge to action without denying the
priority of individual situations over the generalizations derived
from them. In this volume, an international group of senior
scholars comes together to consider the use of cases to produce
empirical knowledge in premodern China. They trace the process by
which the project of thinking with cases acquired a systematic and
public character in the ninth century CE and after. Premodern
Chinese experts on medicine and law circulated printed case
collections to demonstrate efficacy or claim validity for their
judgements. They were joined by authors of religious and
philosophical texts. The rhetorical strategies and forms of
argument used by all of these writers were allied with historical
narratives, exemplary biographies, and case examples composed as
aids to imperial statecraft.
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