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001 2008037847
003 DLC
005 20121006081244.0
008 080826s2008 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008037847
020 $a9781604975611 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $aa-cc---
050 00 $aDS748 .P38$bC53 2008
082 00 $a931/.04$222
100 1 $aClark, Anthony E.
245 10 $aBan Gu's history of early China /$cby Anthony E. Clark.
260 $aAmherst, NY :$bCambria Press,$cc2008.
300 $axix, 302 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aInscribing the past: a history of Chinese history -- The perennial dangers of direct criticism -- Praise, blame, and the modes of judgment -- Inscribing the text: a history of the history of the Han -- "True editions" and Qing skepticism -- Structure and sources of the history of the Han -- Accretions and additions -- From Han to PRC: filiations of transmission -- Inscribing the family: a history of the Ban clan -- Ban Gu, Sima Qian, and rewriting the past -- Inscribing genealogy -- Ban Bo and the family's rise to a consort clan -- Narrating though the dangers of court -- Historicizing advantage: highlighting privilege, loyalty, and influence -- Inscribing the self: ban gu's positioning of text and self -- Eclipse of the imperial family: Wang Mang and the Liu eviction -- Constructing Wang Mang: duplicity, omenology, and despotism -- Inheriting family principles in the wake of political collapse -- Ban Gu: filial son and favored historian -- A new heaven, a new mandate -- Inscribing the state: killing snakes, chasing deer, and reconceiving -- Heaven's mandate -- Heaven and its mandate: earlier assumptions and later innovations -- Killing snakes: legitimizing the Han's mandate -- Chasing deer: a predetermined and permanent mandate -- Zan : a final appraisal.
600 10 $aBan, Gu,$d32-92.$tHan shu.
651 0 $aChina$xHistory$yHan dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.
650 0 $aHistoriography$zChina.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0827/2008037847.html