Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iv
3. Acknowledgments vi
4. Introduction viii
5. Part I. Rhetoric of Persuasion
6. 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 1
7. 2. The Court, Politics, and Rhetoric in England, 1310-1330 36
8. Part II. Rhetoric of Taste
9. 3. Poems for the Emperor: Imperial Tastes in the Early Ninth Century 73
10. 4. Claiming the Past for the Present: Ichijō Kaneyoshi and Tales of Ise 94
11. 5. The Emperor and the Ink Plum: Tracing a Lost Connection between Literati and Huizong’s Court 117
12. Part III. Rhetoric of Communication
13. 6. Personal Crisis and Communication in the Life of Cao Zhi 149
14. 7. Keeping Secrets in a Dark Age 169
15. 8. The Politics of Classical Chinese in the Early Japanese Court 199
16. Part IV. Rhetoric of Gender
17. 9. One Sight: The Han shu Biography of Lady Li 239
18. 10. Poetry of Palace Plaint of the Tang: Its Potential and Limitations 260
19. Part V. Rhetoric of Natural Nobility
20. 11. Dante in God’s Court: The Paradise at the End of the Road 285
21. 12. Practicing Nobility in Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Courtly Culture: Ideology and Politics 321
22. Index 343