Jonathan SPENCE
Treason by the Book: Traitors, Conspirators & Guardians of an Emperor
Penguin Books, 2001
Treason By The Book: Traitors, Conspirators and Guardians of an Emperor
- 作者: Jonathan Spence
- 出版社/メーカー: Penguin
- 発売日: 2006/01/05
- メディア: ペーパーバック
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著者は、これは"a story of eighteenth-century Chinese struggling to be accepeted as scholars, yet at the same time enmeshed in a web of tests and qualifying examinations; of people greedy for learning, forced to endure what they saw as the often arbitrarily negative decisions of those who happened to outrank them"であり、"a book about a world most of us have lost, in which the arrival of every stranger in one's village was an event, to be mulled over and reflected upon for years"であるという("Foreward," pp.x-xi.)。
Foreward
Acknowledgement
Prologue: Letter
1 The General
2 The Emperor
3 The Messenger's Trail
4 In Hunan
5 The Phoenix Song
6 Talking Back
7 Summer Lessons
8 The Pardon
9 The Solitary Bell
10 Coauthors
11 The Source
12 Sounds of Discord
13 Spreading the Word
14 Transformations
15 Retribution
A Note on the Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index
但し、出版社側のウリは"a unique scholarly detecteve story"ということであり、貼り付けてあるSunday Timesの評も"reads like an oriental John le Carre novel"。