
Thinking with Cases
Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History
University of Hawai'i Press
Published on 28. February 2007
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-0-8248-3049-6 (ISBN)
Description
Case studies fascinate because they link individual instances to general patterns and knowledge to action without denying the priority of individual situations over the generalizations derived from them. In this volume, an international group of senior scholars comes together to consider the use of cases to produce empirical knowledge in premodern China. They trace the process by which the project of thinking with cases acquired a systematic and public character in the ninth century CE and after. Premodern Chinese experts on medicine and law circulated printed case collections to demonstrate efficacy or claim validity for their judgements. They were joined by authors of religious and philosophical texts. The rhetorical strategies and forms of argument used by all of these writers were allied with historical narratives, exemplary biographies, and case examples composed as aids to imperial statecraft.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Honolulu, HI
United States
Target group
Adult education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
3 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
721 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8248-3049-6 (9780824830496)
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Charlotte Furth is professor of history at the University of Southern California. Judith T. Zeitlin is professor of Chinese literature and chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. Ping-chen Hsiung is fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, and dean of the College of Liberal Arts, National Central University, in Taipei.