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Garden of Eloquence / Shuoyuan (Hardcover): Liu Xiang

Garden of Eloquence / Shuoyuan (Hardcover)

Liu Xiang; Introduction by Eric Henry; Series edited by Andrew Plaks, Michael Nylan

Series: Classics of Chinese Thought

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In 17 BCE the Han dynasty archivist Liu Xiang presented to the throne a collection of some seven hundred items of varying length, mostly quasi-historical anecdotes and narratives, that he deemed essential reading for wise leadership. Garden of Eloquence (Shuoyuan), divided into twenty books grouped by theme, follows a tradition of narrative writing on historical and philosophical themes that began seven centuries earlier. Long popular in China as a source of allusions and quotations, it preserves late Western Han views concerning history, politics, and ethics. Many of its anecdotes are attributed to Confucius's speeches and teachings that do not appear in earlier texts, demonstrating that long after Confucius's death in 479 BCE it was still possible for new "historical" narratives to be created. Garden of Eloquence is valuable as a repository of items that originally appeared in other early collections that are no longer extant, and it provides detail on topics as various as astronomy and astrology, yin-yang theory, and quasi-geographical and mystical categories. Eric Henry's unabridged translation with facing Chinese text and extensive annotation will make this important primary source available for the first time to Anglophone world historians.

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Imprint: University of Washington Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Classics of Chinese Thought
Release date: 2022
Authors: Liu Xiang
Introduction by: Eric Henry
Series editors: Andrew Plaks • Michael Nylan
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 1360
ISBN-13: 978-0-295-99519-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
LSN: 0-295-99519-X
Barcode: 9780295995199

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