Rhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court Culture : China, Europe, and Japan.

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Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Rhetoric of Persuasion 1. The Rhetoric of Imperial Abdication and Accession in a Third-Century Chinese Court: The Case of Cao Pi's Accession as Emperor of the Wei Dynasty 2. The Court, Politics, and Rhetoric in England, 1310-1330 Part II: Rhetoric of Taste 3. Poems for the Emperor: Imperial Tastes in the Early Ninth Century 4. Claiming the Past for the Present: Ichijō Kaneyoshi and Tales of Ise 5. The Emperor and the Ink Plum: Tracing a Lost Connection between Literati and Huizong's Court Part III: Rhetoric of Communication. 6. Personal Crisis and Communication in the Life of Cao Zhi7. Keeping Secrets in a Dark Age 8. The Politics of Classical Chinese in the Early Japanese Court Part IV: Rhetoric of Gender 9. One Sight: The Han shu Biography of Lady Li 10. Poetry of Palace Plaint of the Tang: Its Potential and Limitations Part V: Rhetoric of Natural Nobility 11. Dante in God's Court: The Paradise at the End of the Road 12. Practicing Nobility in Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Courtly Culture: Ideology and Politics Index.