Honor and Shame in Early China

by Mark Edward Lewis

In this major new study, Mark Edward Lewis traces how the changing language of honor and shame helped to articulate and justify transformations in Chinese society between the Warring States and the end of the Han dynasty. Through careful examination of a wide variety of texts, he demonstrates how honor-shame discourse justified the actions of diverse and potentially rival groups. Over centuries, the formally recognized political order came to be intertwined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108843697
• ISBN13: 9781108843690
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.7" x 9.2"