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Powerful Arguments

Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China
Buch | Hardcover
618 Seiten
2020
Brill (Verlag)
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The essays in Powerful Arguments reconstruct the standards of validity underlying argumentative practices in a wide array of late imperial Chinese discourses, ranging from historiography, philosophy, law and religion to natural studies, literature, and the civil examination system.
The essays in Powerful Arguments reconstruct the standards of validity underlying argumentative practices in a wide array of late imperial Chinese discourses, from the Song through the Qing dynasties. The fourteen case studies analyze concrete arguments defended or contested in areas ranging from historiography, philosophy, law, and religion to natural studies, literature, and the civil examination system. By examining uses of evidence, habits of inference, and the criteria by which some arguments were judged to be more persuasive than others, the contributions recreate distinct cultures of reasoning. Together, they lay the foundations for a history of argumentative practice in one of the richest scholarly traditions outside of Europe and add a chapter to the as yet elusive global history of rationality.

Martin Hofmann, Ph.D. (2007) is Assistant Professor for East Asian Intellectual History at Heidelberg University’s Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies. He has mainly published on historical cartography, practices of argumentation, and the text-image relation in late imperial China. Joachim Kurtz, Ph.D. (2003), is Professor of Intellectual History at Heidelberg University. He is the author of The Discovery of Chinese Logic (Brill, 2011), and has published widely on circulations of knowledge between China and Europe. Ari Daniel Levine, Ph.D (2002) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Georgia. The author of Divided by a Common Language (University of Hawai'i Press, 2008), he is currently the Editor of the Journal of Song-Yuan Studies.

Contents



Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors



Introduction: Toward a History of Argumentative Practice in Late Imperial China

 Martin Hofmann, Joachim Kurtz, and Ari Daniel Levine



Part 1: Comparison, Collation, Validation

 1 Historical and Political Arguments: Debates on the Veritable Records in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644)

  Peter Ditmanson

 2 A Performance of Transparency: Discourses of Veracity and Practices of Verification in Li Tao’s Long Draft

  Ari Daniel Levine

 3 Learning with Metal and Stone: On the Discursive Formation of Song Epigraphy

  Jeffrey Moser



Part 2: Visualization, Demonstration, Calculation

 4 The Persuasive Power of Tu: A Case Study on Commentaries to the Book of Documents

  Martin Hofmann

 5 Inductive Arguments in the Midst of Smoke: “Proving” Rhetorically and Visually That Algorithms Work

  Andrea Bréard

 6 Keeping Your Ear to the Cosmos: Coherence as the Standard of Good Music in the Northern Song

  Ya Zuo

 7 The Textual Nature of Nature: Astronomical Debates in Eighteenth-Century China

  Ori Sela



Part 3: Verification, Evaluation, Authentication

 8 Identity Verification as a Standard of Validity in Late Imperial Civil Service Examinations

  John Williams

 9 Standards of Validity and Essay Grading in Early Qing Civil Service Examinations

  Li Yu虞莉

 10 Some Problems with Corpses: Standards of Validity in Qing Homicide Cases

  Matthew H. Sommer

 11 Value and Validity: Seeing through Silver in Late Imperial China

  Bruce Rusk



Part 4: Corroboration, Refutation, Presentation

 12 Philological Arguments as Religious Suasion: Liu Ning and His Study of Chinese Characters

  Pingyi Chu

 13 A Moral Verdict of Reasonable Doubts: Ouyi Zhixu’s Argumentative Strategies in the Collection of Refutations against Vicious Doctrines

  Manuel Sassmann

 14 Reasoning in Style: The Formation of “Logical Writing” in Late Qing China

  Joachim Kurtz



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Sinica Leidensia ; 146
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 1061 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Logik
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 90-04-42280-3 / 9004422803
ISBN-13 978-90-04-42280-3 / 9789004422803
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