Divided by a common language [electronic resource] : factional conflict in late Northern Song China / Ari Daniel Levine.
Language: English, Chinese Publication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, c2008.Description: xvi, 273 p. : illISBN:- 9780824832667 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0824832663 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Factional conflict in late Northern Song China
- 951/.024 22
- DS751.3 .L48 2008eb

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.
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