1. Early Chinese Manuscript Collections
- Author
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Krijgsman, Rens
- Subjects
ancient ,anthology ,canonization ,daybooks ,divination ,Guodian manuscripts ,historiography ,literacy ,literature ,materiality ,orality ,philology ,poetry ,Shanghai Museum manuscripts ,text culture ,Tsinghua manuscripts ,bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history ,bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism ,bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China ,bic Book Industry Communication::3 Time periods qualifiers::3F c 500 CE to c 1000 CE - Abstract
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.
- Published
- 2023
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