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Garden of Eloquence / Shuoyuan (Hardcover)
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Garden of Eloquence / Shuoyuan (Hardcover)
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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