The one text in the many
Separate and composite readings of an Early Chinese historical manuscript
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2807576 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rens Krijgsman (Wuhan University, corresponding author), Paul Nicholas Vogt (Indiana University Bloomington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 473-492 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0041977x19000673 |
| OpenAlex | W2996774541 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
The manuscript carrying the titleZhuangwang ji Cheng莊王既成, from the Shanghai Museum corpus of bamboo slips, bears two related anecdotes concerning the early Chinese monarch King Zhuang of Chu. In this article, we translate both stories and offer interpretations of them both as individual texts and as a composite narrative, situating both readings in a context of intertextual references based on shared cultural memory. Approaching the anecdotes together, we argue, generates an additional layer of meaning, yielding both a deep sense of dramatic irony and a critique of the value of foreknowledge - and, by extension, of the explanatory value of historiography. In detailing how this layer of meaning is generated, we explore the range of reading experiences and approaches to understanding the past enabled by combining separate but related textual units, a prevalent mode of composition and consumption in the manuscript culture of Warring States China
Art · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Historiography · Irony · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Narrative · Value (mathematics) · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
Chinese History and Philosophy
Heng Xian and the Problem of Studying Looted Artifacts
Between History and Philosophy
The Xinian
Introduction to the Peking University Han Bamboo Strips
The Oxford History of Historical Writing
The Embodied Text
Text and Ritual in Early China
Material Virtue
Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography
Zhou History and Historiography
An Inquiry into the Formation of Readership in Early China
Defining Chu
A Patterned Past
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |