Authorship and Text-making in Early China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19891696 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hanmo Zhang (0000-0001-7689-5611, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 375 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Authorship and Text-Making in Early China (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9781501505133 |
| OpenAlex | W2892999637 |
| ISBN | 9781501505133 |
| Open Library | OL29771516M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
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
Archaeology · China · Linguistics · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Philosophy · Authorship · Chinese literature · Chinese literature, history and criticism · History and criticism · Transmission of texts
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The Forms of Authorship in Camilleri
Rereading a Poetics of Divination
Cultural Memory and the Epic in Early Chinese Literature
How versus What
“People at the gate”
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |