{"product_id":"textual-forces-meow-hui-goh-9781501787744","title":"Textual Forces: The Political Prose of the Three Kingdoms Era","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTextual Forces\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e examines how political texts were forces of war, state-building, and inner- and inter-regime communication in early medieval China. \u003c\/b\u003eMeow Hui Goh shows that these texts acted as vectors: pushing and pulling, stirring and moving, conjuring sensory and emotional affective states that animated individuals and the world around them. Covering prose from different regimes and states, from the battleground and the court, Goh traces the symbiotic relationship among the textual, bodily, and political aspects of Chinese life in the late Han through Three Kingdoms period. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterweaving literary, historical, and linguistic analysis, Goh offers a new framework for understanding the significance of the political prose of early medieval China. Goh complicates our understanding of textual authority in this era, shifting to a concept of textual forces that shows how these prose works exerted physical and emotive forces to arouse a wide range of reactions beyond political obedience. \u003ci\u003eTextual Forces \u003c\/i\u003einvites an imagination of premodern China infused as much by the senses, feelings and emotions effected through text as it was by the symbolic power of text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Meow Hui Goh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501787748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501787744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell East Asia Series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Meow Hui Goh","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874479157503,"sku":"9781501787744","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/textual-forces-meow-hui-goh-9781501787744","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}