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Philosophy on Bamboo
Text and the Production of Meaning in Early China
Av Dirk Meyer
Inbunden, 2011
3078 kr
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Scholarship on early Chinese thought has long tended to treat texts as mere repositories of ideas rather than as meaningful objects in their own right. Not only does this approach present an idealised account of China’s intellectual past, but it also imposes artificial boundaries between textual …
Mozi as an Evolving Text
Different Voices in Early Chinese Thought
Inbunden, 2013
2791 kr
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Mozi (ca. 479-381), known as the first outspoken critic of Confucius, is an important but neglected figure in early Chinese philosophy. The book Mozi, named after master Mo, was compiled in the course of the fifth - third centuries BCE. The seven studies included in the The Mozi as an Evolving Text …
Embodied Text
Establishing Textual Identity in Early Chinese Manuscripts
Inbunden, 2013
2472 kr
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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 …
Huainanzi and Textual Production in Early China
Inbunden, 2014
3343 kr
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The Han dynasty Huainanzi is a compendium of knowledge covering every subject from self-cultivation, astronomy, and calendrics, to the arts of government. This edited volume follows a multi-disciplinary approach to explore how and why the Huainanzi was produced and how we should interpret the work. …
Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture in Early Medieval China
A Brief History of Early Muzhiming
Inbunden, 2015
2767 kr
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In Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture Timothy M. Davis presents a history of early muzhiming—the most versatile and persistent commemorative form employed in the elite burials of pre-modern China. While previous scholars have largely overlooked the contemporary religious, social, and …
Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy
Studies in the Composition and Thought of the Shangshu (Classic of Documents)
Av Martin Kern
Inbunden, 2017
2298 kr
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Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy is the first book in any Western language to explore the composition, language, thought, and early history of the Shangshu (Classic of Documents), one of the pillars of the Chinese textual, intellectual, and political tradition. In examining the text from …
Confucius and the Analects Revisited
New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship
Inbunden, 2018
1953 kr
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Edited by Michael Hunter and Martin Kern and featuring contributions by preeminent scholars of early China, Confucius and the Analects Revisited: New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship critically examines the long-standing debates surrounding the history of the Analects, for two …
Du Fu
The Song Dynasty Making of China’s Greatest Poet
Av Jue Chen
Inbunden, 2023
1986 kr
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Irreducible to conventional labels usually applied to him, the Tang poet Du Fu (712–770) both defined and was defined by the literary, intellectual, and socio-political cultures of the Song dynasty (960–1279).Jue Chen not only argues in his work that Du Fu was constructed according to particular …
Early Chinese Manuscript Collections
Sayings, Memory, Verse, and Knowledge
Inbunden, 2023
1244 kr
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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 …
Textual Practices of Literary Training in Medieval China
Evidence from Dunhuang Manuscripts
Inbunden, 2023
1415 kr
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Through close examination of a set of educational works discovered among the Dunhuang manuscripts, this book presents new insights into the literary training undertaken by the elite of medieval China. In their contents and structures, these works tell us what parts of the literary and cultural …
Zuozhuan and Early Chinese Historiography
Av Yuri Pines, Martin Kern m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2048 kr
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Zuozhuan (Zuo Tradition) is the foundational text of Chinese historiography and the largest text from preimperial China. For two millennia, its immense complexity has given rise to countless controversies, with scholars debating its nature, time of composition, and historical reliability. In the …
Qu Yuan and the Chuci
New Approaches
Av Martin Kern
Inbunden, 2023
2343 kr
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In this volume, leading scholars of early Chinese literature offer new, multi-faceted research on the ancient anthology Lyrics of Chu (Chuci). Through meticulous textual analysis, richly annotated translations, and theoretical reflection, they challenge millennia-old assumptions about China’s …
Playing with Plays: Drama and Early Modern Chinese Media Ecologies
Av Yinghui Wu
Inbunden, 2025
1999 kr
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How was drama experienced in early modern China? It was not tied to a single medium such as the page or the stage, but operated in a media ecology—an environment in which it integrated other arts and media while being refashioned in a variety of arts and media. This book explores a wide range of …
Writing and Community in 300 BCE China
The Canonical Poems (Shi) at the Chu Capital of Ying
Av Martin Kern
Inbunden, 2026
1430 kr
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Writing and Community in 300 BCE China is the first study to examine the anthology of the canonical Poems (Shi 詩) within their social and interpretive community at the ancient capital of Chu. Based on archaeological data and the analysis of recently discovered bamboo manuscripts, it identifies the …
