The Ancestors' Instructions Must Not Change: Political Discourse and Practice in the Song Period (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004472624)

Vendor: Kek Koon Wee
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Format: Hardcover
$330.00
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The Ancestors' Instructions Must Not Change: Political Discourse and Practice in the Song Period

$330.00

The Ancestors' Instructions Must Not Change: Political Discourse and Practice in the Song Period

$330.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book offers an account of the development and transformations of the discourse of ancestors' instructions in the Song period. It explains how rulers selected words and deeds of ancestors in tandem with changes in current affairs, and how they gave them different meanings to create not only an image of the ancestors that were suitable for emulation but also a talisman to safeguard their administration. Using abundant resources, exercising an economy of words and academic rigor, the author digs deep to tease apart the complex and versatile relationship between the meaning and the truth of the Song discourse on ancestors' instructions.

Author: Kek Koon Wee,Xiaonan Deng
ISBN-10: 9004472622
ISBN-13: 9789004472624
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/02/2021
Pages: 682
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.48lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 1.44d
By Kek Koon Wee
By Kek Koon Wee
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Deng Xiaonan, M.A. (1985), Peking University, is Professor of history at that university. She has published monographs and more than a hundred articles on Chinese history, including Personnel Administration of Civil Service in Song China (1993, 2021).

Wee Kek Koon, M.A., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, B.A. (Hons), National University of Singapore, is a translator and writer who has published English translations of academic and literary works that are written in the Chinese language.

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