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        Chapter 4 The Ice of Memory and the Fires of Forgetfulness
Traumatic Recollections in the Wu Yue chunqiu
            
        
    
    
    
    
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        Olivia Milburn
        
                                    
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                                            Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- Illustrations xi
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction 1
- 
                            Historiographical and Political Narratives
- Cultural Amnesia and Commentarial Retrofitting 25
- Elision and Narration 49
- Shaping the Historian’s Project 71
- The Ice of Memory and the Fires of Forgetfulness 97
- 
                            Philosophical Writings
- The Daode jing’s Forgotten Forebear 119
- So Comfortable You’ll Forget You Have Them On 153
- The Practice of Erasing Traces in the Huainanzi 181
- The Oblivious against the Doctor 215
- Wang Bi and the Hermeneutics of Actualization 245
- 
                            Ritual and Literary Texts
- Embodied Memory and Natural Forgetting in Early Chinese Ritual Theory 271
- Exile and Return 297
- Lost in Where We Are 327
- Contributors 349
- Index 353
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- Illustrations xi
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction 1
- 
                            Historiographical and Political Narratives
- Cultural Amnesia and Commentarial Retrofitting 25
- Elision and Narration 49
- Shaping the Historian’s Project 71
- The Ice of Memory and the Fires of Forgetfulness 97
- 
                            Philosophical Writings
- The Daode jing’s Forgotten Forebear 119
- So Comfortable You’ll Forget You Have Them On 153
- The Practice of Erasing Traces in the Huainanzi 181
- The Oblivious against the Doctor 215
- Wang Bi and the Hermeneutics of Actualization 245
- 
                            Ritual and Literary Texts
- Embodied Memory and Natural Forgetting in Early Chinese Ritual Theory 271
- Exile and Return 297
- Lost in Where We Are 327
- Contributors 349
- Index 353