Text and Edition in Early Chinese Philosophical Literature

Bibliographic Data

ID4943249
AuthorsHarold D Roth (corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume113
Issue2
Pages214
Publication date1993-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/603026
OpenAlexW2007349192
LanguageEN
Citations received7

Students of the textual history of Chinese works of all periods and genres encounter the problem that we do not always distinguish clearly between the concepts of text and edition. A further problem arises when one seeks to differentiate the strata of editions relating to the textual history of a given work. In this article, based on the author's research into the textual history of three early philosophical works, Huai-nan Tzu, Chuang Tzu, and Lao Tzu, an attempt is made to resolve these issues by proposing working definitions for the key terms, text and edition, and for a number of other related terms, including exemplar, recension, ancestral redaction, received text, and witness. The relevant Western text-critical models are surveyed and the closely related fields of textual history and textual criticism are discussed with regard to Chinese works

Art · Epistemology · Literature · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Philosophy

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