Genre Networks and Empire: Rhetoric in Early Imperial China You Xiaoye
Genre Networks and Empire: Rhetoric in Early Imperial China You Xiaoye A decolonial reading of Han Dynasty rhetoric reveals the logics and networks that governed early imperial ChinaIn Genre Networks…
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Genre Networks and Empire: Rhetoric in Early Imperial China You Xiaoye
A decolonial reading of Han Dynasty rhetoric reveals the logics and networks that governed early imperial ChinaIn Genre Networks and Empire, Xiaoye You integrates a decolonial and transnational approach to construct a rhetorical history of early imperial China. He considers the communication of governance, political issues, court consultations, and the regulation of the inner quarters of empire. You centers ancient Chinese rhetoric by focusing on how an imperial matrix of power was established in the Han Dynasty through genres of rhetoric and their embodied circulation, and through epistemic constructs such as the Way, heaven, ritual, and yin-yang.Through the concept of genre networks, derived from both ancient Chinese and Western scholarship, You unlocks the mechanisms of early Chinese imperial bureaucracy and maps their far-reaching influence.
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