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Author | : Hanmo Zhang |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2018-10-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1501505130 |
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This book is a timely response to a rather urgent call to seek an updated methodology in rereading and reappraising early Chinese texts in light of newly discovered early writings. For a long time, the concept of authorship in the formation and transmission of early Chinese texts has been misunderstood. The nominal author who should mainly function as a guide to text formation and interpretation is considered retrospectively as the originator and writer of the text. This book illustrates that although some notions about the text as the author’s property began to appear in some Eastern Han texts, a strict correlation between the author and the text results from later conceptions of literary history. Before the modern era, there existed a conceptual gap between an author and a writer. A pre-modern Chinese text could have had both an author and a writer, or even multiple authors and multiple writers. This work is the first study addressing these issues by more systematically emphasizing the connection of the text, the author, and the religious and sociopolitical settings in which these issues were embedded. It is expected to constitute a palpable contribution to Chinese studies and the discipline of philology in general
Author | : Feng Li |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0295991526 |
Download Writing and Literacy in Early China Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The long-term continuity and stability of the Chinese written language allow for a detailed study of the role literacy played in early civilization. The widely informed and highly respected contributors to this volume inquire into modes of manuscript production, the purposes for which manuscripts were produced, and the ways in which they were actually used.
Author | : Mark Edward Lewis |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780791441138 |
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This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the foundation of imperial authority. Its central theme is the emergence of this body of writings as the textual double of the state, and of the text-based sage as the double of the ruler. The book examines the full range of writings employed in early China, such as divinatory records, written communications with ancestors, government documents, the collective writings of philosophical and textual traditions, speeches attributed to historical figures, chronicles, verse anthologies, commentaries, and encyclopedic compendia. Lewis shows how these writings served to administer populations, control officials, form new social groups, invent new models of authority, and create an artificial language whose master generated power and whose graphs became potent objects.
Author | : Hanmo Zhang |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2018-10-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 150150519X |
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This book is a timely response to a rather urgent call to seek an updated methodology in rereading and reappraising early Chinese texts in light of newly discovered early writings. For a long time, the concept of authorship in the formation and transmission of early Chinese texts has been misunderstood. The nominal author who should mainly function as a guide to text formation and interpretation is considered retrospectively as the originator and writer of the text. This book illustrates that although some notions about the text as the author’s property began to appear in some Eastern Han texts, a strict correlation between the author and the text results from later conceptions of literary history. Before the modern era, there existed a conceptual gap between an author and a writer. A pre-modern Chinese text could have had both an author and a writer, or even multiple authors and multiple writers. This work is the first study addressing these issues by more systematically emphasizing the connection of the text, the author, and the religious and sociopolitical settings in which these issues were embedded. It is expected to constitute a palpable contribution to Chinese studies and the discipline of philology in general
Author | : Edward L. Shaughnessy |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2006-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780791466445 |
Download Rewriting Early Chinese Texts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores the rewriting of early Chinese texts in the wake of new archaeological evidence.
Author | : Hanmo Zhang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : |
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This dissertation aims to show how the author functioned as the key to classifying, preserving, and interpreting a body of ancient knowledge; the author not only served as a foundation upon which different elements of knowledge were brought together, but also as furnished cues to the interpretation of composite texts and thus created a notional coherence in texts. On a deeper level, the inquiry of early Chinese authorship also sheds light on the ritual, religious, and sociopolitical contexts influencing authorial attributions and on how such attributions are associated with early Chinese intellectual history in general. I argue in Chapter One that the figure of the Yellow Emperor was forged out of the Eastern Zhou ritual and religious thought that bears the mark of the ancestral veneration of high antiquity while at the same time reflecting the concerns of the changing social realities of the time. I argue in Chapter One that the figure of the Yellow Emperor was forged out of the Eastern Zhou ritual and religious thought that bears the mark of the ancestral veneration of high antiquity while at the same time reflecting the concerns of the changing social realities of the time. I argue in Chapter Two that the written materials later incorporated into the Lunyu originally served different purposes and were interpreted differently in different contexts. The compilation of the Lunyu in the early Western Han was concomitant with the trend of elevating and mythicizing Confucius as the creator of the Han governmental ideology because he filled the need for a tangible, quotable authority. Chapter Three argues that the "Yaolüe," the last chapter of the extant Huainanzi, was composed after Liu An's death as the means to impart a cohesive unity to the writings left from Liu An's Huainan court. It further explores the relationship between the patron-author and the actual writers or compilers. In Chapter Four I argue that neither of the two documents is autobiographical account written by Sima Qian. Instead, the voice of frustration conveyed in these two sources should be understood as the collective voice of the Han intellectuals. In Chapter Five I suggest that in the study of early Chinese translations of Buddhist texts we cannot view early catalogues of Buddhist translations as historical records; instead, we need to explore why and under what circumstances those catalogues were compiled. The intention to differentiate "true," "authentic" translations from apocryphal sutras was one of the most important factors motivating the cataloguing of early translated Buddhist scriptures.
Author | : Rens Krijgsman |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2023-03-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004540849 |
Download Early Chinese Manuscript Collections Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As the first study of manuscript collections, this book asks what changes when sayings, stories, songs, and spells are brought together on the same carrier. Covering a plethora of manuscripts from the Warring States and early empires, and spanning sources from philosophy, historiography, poetry, and technical literature, this study describes the whole life-cycle of multiple texts collected on a single manuscript. Drawing on comparative and interdisciplinary advances and based on careful study of manuscript materiality and textuality, this book shows the importance of collections in the development of and access to text and knowledge in early China.
Author | : Pauline Yu |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2000-09-19 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0520224663 |
Download Ways with Words Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is an interdisciplinary collection of articles analyzing seven classic premodern Chinese texts that are provided in translation.
Author | : Matthias L. Richter |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2013-01-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 900424381X |
Download The Embodied Text Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Embodied Text Matthias L. Richter offers an exemplary study of a 300 BCE Chinese manuscript, exploring significant differences between the Warring States manuscript text and its transmitted early imperial counterparts. These differences reveal the adaptation of the text to a changed political environment as well as general ideological developments. This study further demonstrates how the physical embodiment of the text in the manuscript reflects modes of textual formation and social uses of written texts.
Author | : Benoît Vermander |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2024-05-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1040010083 |
Download Textual Patterns and Cosmic Designs in Early China Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Via a hermeneutics focused on Chinese numerology and concentric arrangements, this book offers a novel construal of the textual universe proper to early China writings. The author lays bare distinguishable patterns of textual composition while relating them to corresponding patterns of thinking. He differentiates rhetorical variants through detailed studies of the Zhuangzi’s Inner chapters, the Laozi, the Analects, and the Huainanzi. The philosophical depth and relevance of the Chinese ancient worldview appear in a fresh light when one unearths the patterns into which its content is embedded. The focus on textual patterns and rhetorical arrangements also facilitates the reading of Chinese classics alongside other traditions. The book will be a valuable reference for scholars and graduate students studying Chinese literary criticism, Chinese philosophy, and comparative philosophy.