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Authorship and Text-making in Early China

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

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 weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-5015-1435-7 / 978-1501514357 / 9781501514357

Verlag: de Gruyter Mouton

Erscheinungsdatum: 08.10.2018

Seiten: 375

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Hanmo Zhang

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