Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance

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Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance is written by Jack W. Chen and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674251172 (ISBN 10) and 9780674251175 (ISBN 13).

In his reading of the Shishuo xinyu, the most important anecdotal collection of medieval China, Jack W. Chen presents an extended meditation on the anecdote form, both what it affords in terms of representing a social community and how it provides a space for the rehearsal of certain longstanding philosophical and cultural arguments.