RHETORIC TO THE SINGLE-PERSON AUDIENCE

The Chinese rhetors were not public speakers but persuaders primarily in a private setting, most often talking to a one-person audience, often assumed to be the ruler or a superior. (p.12)

Rhetoric to the single person audience developped special features. (P. 12)

Guiguzi, China’s first treatise on Rhetoric. A critical translation and commentary. Translated by Hui Wu. With commentaries by Hui Wu and C. Jan Swearingen. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press. 2016.