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The embodied text : establishing textual identity in early Chinese manuscripts / by Matthias L. Richter.
Van Pelt Library PL2461.Z7 R53 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richter, Matthias L.
- Series:
- Studies in the history of Chinese texts ; v. 3.
- Studies in the history of Chinese texts, 1877-9425 ; v. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese classics--Criticism, Textual.
- Chinese classics.
- Criticism, Textual.
- Chinese literature--Criticism, Textual.
- Chinese literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Summary:
- In The Embodied Text Mathias L. Richter offers an exemplary study of a 300 BCE Chinese manuscript, exploring significant differences between the Warring States manuscript text and its transmitted early imperial counterparts. These differences reveal the adaptation of the text to a changed political environment as well as general ideological developments. This study further demonstrates how the physical embodiment of the text in the manuscript reflects modes of textual formation and social uses of written texts Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Min Zhi Fumu: Examining the Manuscript and Establishing the Text
- 1 The Context of the Manuscript 19
- 2 Codicological Examination 25
- 3 Paleographic Examination 33
- 4 Presentation of the Text 48
- 5 The Extension of *Min zhi fumu 55
- Part 2 The Divergence of Manuscript Text and Transmitted Counterparts: A Review of Homogenizing Readings
- 6 A Hierarchy of Criteria for Deciding on Disputed Readings 65
- 7 Variants of Little Consequence for the Content of the Text 73
- 8 Restoring Lost Manuscript Text 99
- 9 Variants Concerning the Central Ideas of the Text 112
- Part 3 Comparative Interpretation Of *Min Zhi fumu and its Transmitted Counterparts: Differences in the Nature of the Texts and Their Ideology
- 10 The Core Text 127
- 11 The Evolving Role of the Odes in Ru Instruction 134
- 12 The Conclusion of the Core Text 147
- 13 Later Additions to the Core Text: Indexical Text 157
- 14 Texts as Repositories of Didactic Material: Active vs. Passive Text 171.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004236578
- 9004236570
- 9789004243811
- 900424381X
- OCLC:
- 814301548
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