Rhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court Culture: China, Europe, and Japan by David R. Knechtges, Eugene Vance
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0295984503 | 352 Pages | PDF | 11.2 MB
Key imperial and royal courts–in Han, Tang, and Song dynasty China; medieval and renaissance Europe; and Heian and Muromachi Japan–are examined in this comparative and interdisciplinary volume as loci of power and as entities that establish, influence, or counter the norms of a larger society.