Powerful Arguments: Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China

Sinica Leidensia #146

by Martin Hofmann (Contributor), Joachim Kurtz (Contributor), Ari Daniel Levine (Contributor)

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.

634 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2020