{"product_id":"powerful-arguments-standards-of-validity-in-late-imperial-china-9789004422803","title":"Powerful Arguments: Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents    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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210793410903,"sku":"9789004422803","price":156.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/powerful-arguments-standards-of-validity-in-late-imperial-china-9789004422803","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}