Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagi

Description: Savage Exchange by Tamara T. Chin Tamara T. Chin explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance ("Silk Road") markets. Chin explains why rival political groups introduced new literary forms with which to represent these expanded markets. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Savage Exchange explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance ("Silk Road") markets. Tamara T. Chin explains why rival political groups introduced new literary forms with which to represent these expanded markets. To promote a radically quantitative approach to the market, some thinkers developed innovative forms of fiction and genre. In opposition, traditionalists reasserted the authority of classical texts and advocated a return to the historical, ethics-centered, marriage-based, agricultural economy that these texts described. The discussion of frontiers and markets thus became part of a larger debate over the relationship between the world and the written word. These Han debates helped to shape the ways in which we now define and appreciate early Chinese literature and produced the foundational texts of Chinese economic thought. Each chapter in the book examines a key genre or symbolic practice (philosophy, fu-rhapsody, historiography, money, kinship) through which different groups sought to reshape the political economy. By juxtaposing well-known texts with recently excavated literary and visual materials, Chin elaborates a new literary and cultural approach to Chinese economic thought. Author Biography Tamara T. Chin is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies at Brown University. Review Every now and then, the collective scholarly consciousness is stirred up by a new book that makes unexpected connections among well-known facts and thereby fundamentally changes the perception of an entire epoch. Tamara Chins Savage Exchange is such a book. -- Lothar von Falkenhausen * Journal of Chinese Studies *Tamara Chin vividly illuminates the imbrication of rhetorical idioms, literary styles, and theories of value that shaped the clash between moral philosophy and political economy at a defining moment in the construction of the Chinese empire. Savage Exchange initiates an immensely rewarding dialogue between literary analysis and economic history. -- Richard von Glahn, University of California, Los AngelesThis book offers an utterly refreshing look at the entanglement of the economic and literary in ancient Chinese writings about exotica, foreign markets, aesthetic extravagance, and border crossing in general. Tamara Chins masterful exegesis ranges across the Shiji, the Hanshu, the Guanzi, and fu-rhapsody to reveal an ancient world that is at once new yet surprisingly familiar in its anxieties about lavish expenditure, quantification, economic abstraction, strange idioms, accumulations of wealth and their moral implications. Savage Exchange is a brilliant contribution to classical scholarship, comparative literature, and comparative analyses of ancient economic thought. -- Lydia H. Liu, Columbia UniversitySavage Exchange is a major breakthrough in conceptualizing grounds of comparison between early Chinese texts and other literary traditions. By drawing attention to a range of texts often outside the purview of literary scholars, Tamara Chin rethinks the relationship between centers and margins in the Chinese tradition. How did knowledge of distant lands or other peoples shape literary imagination? How can we extend the concept of text to material remains (such as coins)? By asking these and other absorbing questions, Chin reveals hidden connections between what at first sight appear to be disparate fields of knowledge. -- Wai-yee Li, Harvard University Review Quote This book offers an utterly refreshing look at the entanglement of the economic and literary in ancient Chinese writings about exotica, foreign markets, aesthetic extravagance, and border crossing in general. Tamara Chins masterful exegesis ranges across the Shiji , the Hanshu , the Guanzi , and fu -rhapsody to reveal an ancient world that is at once new yet surprisingly familiar in its anxieties about lavish expenditure, quantification, economic abstraction, strange idioms, accumulations of wealth and their moral implications. Savage Exchange is a brilliant contribution to classical scholarship, comparative literature, and comparative analyses of ancient economic thought. Details ISBN0674417194 Author Tamara T. Chin Language English Year 2014 ISBN-10 0674417194 ISBN-13 9780674417199 Format Hardcover Publisher Harvard University, Asia Center Imprint Harvard University, Asia Center Subtitle Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination Country of Publication United States DEWEY 895.109006 Short Title SAVAGE EXCHANGE Media Book Series Number 94 Pages 380 Illustrations 14 halftones, 2 line illustrations, 1 map, 1 table Publication Date 2014-10-01 UK Release Date 2014-10-01 AU Release Date 2014-10-01 NZ Release Date 2014-10-01 US Release Date 2014-10-01 Series Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161734985;

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