Authorship and Text-making in Early China

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 misunderst...

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description 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
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-416172024-04-02T22:13:03Z Authorship and Text-making in Early China Zhang, Hanmo DS1-937 Yellow Emperor Confucius Liu An Sima Qian. thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history 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 2021-02-11T08:43:08Z 2021-02-11T08:43:08Z 2018-11-14 18:42:56 2018 book 29504 2625-0616 9781501505133 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/41617 eng Library of Sinology image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505133 De Gruyter 10.1515/9781501505133 10.1515/9781501505133 af2fbfcc-ee87-43d8-a035-afb9d7eef6a5 9781501505133 375 open access
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