The Wenzi

Creativity and Intertextuality in Early Chinese Philosophy
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-26479-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 284 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Chinese Texts

The Wenzi is a Chinese philosophical text that enjoyed considerable prestige in the centuries following its creation, over two-thousand years ago. When questions regarding its authenticity arose, the text was branded a forgery and consigned to near oblivion. The discovery of an age-old Wenzi manuscript, inked on strips of bamboo, refueled interest in the text. In this combined study of the bamboo manuscript and the received text, Van Els argues that they belong to two distinct text traditions as he studies the date, authorship, and philosophy of each tradition, as well as the reception history of the received text. This study sheds light on text production and reception in Chinese history, with its changing views on authorship, originality, authenticity, and forgery, both past and present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Els, Paul van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Conventions

Introduction

1 The Dingzhou Discovery

2 The Dingzhou Wenzi

3 The Proto-Wenzi: Date, Protagonists, Author

4 The Proto-Wenzi: Philosophy

5 A New Wenzi

6 The Received Wenzi: Date and Editor

7 The Received Wenzi: Philosophy

8 Wenzi Reception

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul van Els, Ph.D. (2006), is University Lecturer of China Studies at Leiden University. He authored Van orakelbot tot weblog, a two-volume textbook of Classical Chinese (Leiden University Press, 2011, 2015), and he co-edited, with Sarah A. Queen, Between History and Philosophy: Anecdotes in Early China (State University of New York Press, 2017).