Table of Contents
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List of Plates |
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Acknowledgments |
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Prologue |
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Chapter 1: Inscribing the Past: A History of Chinese History |
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The Perennial Dangers of Direct Criticism |
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Praise, Blame, and the Modes of Judgment |
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Chapter 2: Inscribing the Text: A History of the History of the Han |
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“True Editions” and Qing Skepticism |
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Structure and Sources of the History of the Han |
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Accretions and Additions |
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From Han to PRC: Filiations of Transmission |
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Chapter 3: Inscribing the Family: A History of the Ban Clan |
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Ban Gu, Sima Qian, and Rewriting the Past |
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Inscribing Genealogy |
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Ban Bo and the Family’s Rise to a Consort Clan |
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Narrating Through the Dangers of Court |
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Historicizing Advantage: Highlighting Privilege, Loyalty, and Influence |
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Chapter 4: Inscribing the Self: Ban Gu’s Positioning of Text and Self |
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Eclipse of the Imperial Family: Wang Mang and the Liu Eviction |