Portion of title |
Factional conflict in late Northern Song China |
Contents |
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. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-261) and index. |
LCCN | 2008018672 |
ISBN | 9780824832667 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 0824832663 (hardcover : alk. paper) |