Levine, Ari Daniel.

Divided by a common language factional conflict in late Northern Song China / [electronic resource] : Factional conflict in late Northern Song China Ari Daniel Levine. - Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, c2008. - xvi, 273 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-261) and index.

The rhetoric of politics and the politics of rhetoric -- Frames of reference: classical hermeneutics and historical analogism -- Categorical propositions: faction theory and the political imagination of the Northern Song -- Unified theories of division: factional rhetoric in the reform era, 1069-1085 -- The closed circle: factional rhetoric in the antireform era, 1085-1093 -- Retributive justice: factional rhetoric in the post-reform era, 1094-1104 -- Discourses of authority and the authority of discourse.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Chinese language--Political aspects--History--To 1500.


China--Politics and government--960-1279.


Electronic books.

DS751.3 / .L48 2008

951/.024