Early Chinese Manuscript Collections

Sayings, Memory, Verse, and Knowledge
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53627-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 511 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Chinese Texts

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 technical literature, this study describes the whole life-cycle of multiple texts collected on a single manuscript.

Drawing on comparative and interdisciplinary advances and based on careful study of manuscript materiality and textuality, this book shows the importance of collections in the development of and access to text and knowledge in early China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krijgsman, Rens

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Rens Krijgsman, DPhil (2017), University of Oxford, is Associate Professor at the Research and Conservation Center for Unearthed Texts, Tsinghua University. He has written on memory, reading, intertextuality, and the perceptions and materiality of early Chinese manuscripts.