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Authorship and Text-making in Early China / Hanmo Zhang
(Library of Sinology ; ; 2)
| Material Type | E-Book |
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| Publisher | Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton |
| Year | [2018] |
| Language | English |
| Size | 1 online resource (375 pages) |
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| Media type | 機械可読データファイル |
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| Notes | 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 Open Access In English Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018) |
| Authors | *Zhang, Hanmo, |
| Subjects | LCSH:Chinese literature -- To 221 B.C. -- History and criticism
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LCSH:Authorship -- To 1500. -- History All Subject Search LCSH:Transmission of texts -- To 1500. -- China -- History All Subject Search BISACSH:LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Authorship All Subject Search FREE:Authorship FREE:Chinese literature FREE:Transmission of texts FREE:China BSH:Electronic books FREE:Criticism, interpretation, etc FREE:History FREE:To 1500 |
| Classification | DC23:400 |
| ID | ED00001615 |
| ISBN | 1501505130 |