Ideology and Value Divergence

Assassins in Chinese Historiography

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211220.262How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Piety; Assassinators; Sima Qian

Abstract

Study on different narratives between western and eastern historians have emphasized that due to ideological influences, individual in western or eastern culture has different patterns to getting oneself involved in political life. As an extreme political weapon for some specific goals, assassins played an important role in changing the situation for revenge and other radical operations. A case study focused on how value teachings produced assassins and political plots is an ideal demonstration to further develop the narrative studies between different cultures. This article examines the assassin case by using the text of Sima Qian’s Grand Scribes of Records and related contexts. It is argued that the rewarding mechanism from the elites is the driving force for traditional Chinese plebeians to participate and practice their political crafts.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xingyu An
AU  - Yuxiao Zhang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Ideology and Value Divergence
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1552
EP  - 1556
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.262
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.262
ID  - An2021
ER  -