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Savage Exchange
2014,2020
Overview
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. Co-Winner, 2016 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association; Honorable Mention, 2016 Joseph Levenson Book Prize, Pre-1900 Category, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center,Harvard University Asia Center Publications Program
Subject
/ Business
/ China
/ China -- Commerce -- History
/ China -- Economic conditions -- To 1644
/ China -- History -- Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D
/ China -- Territorial expansion
/ Chinese literature -- Qin and Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D. -- History and criticism
/ Commerce
/ Economics and literature -- China -- History -- To 1500
/ Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D
/ HISTORY
/ Imperialism -- Economic aspects -- China -- History -- To 1500
/ Imperialism -- Social aspects -- China -- History -- To 1500
/ Politics and literature -- China -- History -- To 1500
/ Qin and Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D
/ To 1500
/ To 1644
ISBN
0674417194, 9780674417199
