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The 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.
Contents
ContentsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Toward a History of Argumentative Practice in Late Imperial ChinaMartin Hofmann, Joachim Kurtz, and Ari Daniel LevinePart 1: Comparison, Collation, Validation1 Historical and Political Arguments: Debates on the Veritable Records in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)Peter Ditmanson2 A Performance of Transparency: Discourses of Veracity and Practices of Verification in Li Tao's Long DraftAri Daniel Levine3 Learning with Metal and Stone: On the Discursive Formation of Song EpigraphyJeffrey MoserPart 2: Visualization, Demonstration, Calculation4 The Persuasive Power of Tu: A Case Study on Commentaries to the Book of DocumentsMartin Hofmann5 Inductive Arguments in the Midst of Smoke: "Proving" Rhetorically and Visually That Algorithms WorkAndrea Breard6 Keeping Your Ear to the Cosmos: Coherence as the Standard of Good Music in the Northern SongYa Zuo7 The Textual Nature of Nature: Astronomical Debates in Eighteenth-Century ChinaOri SelaPart 3: Verification, Evaluation, Authentication8 Identity Verification as a Standard of Validity in Late Imperial Civil Service ExaminationsJohn Williams9 Standards of Validity and Essay Grading in Early Qing Civil Service Examinations Li Yu 10 Some Problems with Corpses: Standards of Validity in Qing Homicide CasesMatthew H. Sommer11 Value and Validity: Seeing through Silver in Late Imperial ChinaBruce RuskPart 4: Corroboration, Refutation, Presentation12 Philological Arguments as Religious Suasion: Liu Ning and His Study of Chinese CharactersPingyi Chu13 A Moral Verdict of Reasonable Doubts: Ouyi Zhixu's Argumentative Strategies in the Collection of Refutations against Vicious DoctrinesManuel Sassmann14 Reasoning in Style: The Formation of "Logical Writing" in Late Qing ChinaJoachim KurtzIndex
