Honor and Shame in Early China
Honor and Shame in Early China In this major new study, Mark Edward Lewis traces how the changing language of honor and shame helped to articulate and justify transformations in Chinese society…
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Honor and Shame in Early China
In this major new study, Mark Edward Lewis traces how the changing language of honor and shame helped to articulate and justify transformations in Chinese society between the Warring States and the end of the Han dynasty. Over centuries, the formally recognized political order came to be intertwined with groups articulating alternative models of honor. Through careful examination of a wide variety of texts, he demonstrates how honor-shame discourse justified the actions of diverse and potentially rival groups.
Filling a major lacuna in the study of early China, Lewis presents ways in which the early Chinese empires can be fruitfully considered in comparative context and develops a more systematic understanding of the These groups both participated in the existing order and, through their own visions of what was truly honourable, paved the way for subsequent political structures.
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