Literary information in China : a history / edited by Jack W. Chen [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chen, Jack Wei, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information resources--China--History.

Information resources.

Information organization--China--History.

Information organization.

Chinese literature--History and criticism.

Chinese literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 24 tables and figures

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

“Information” has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world that became central only in the digital age. In this book, leading experts turn to China’s textual tradition to show the significance of information for reconceptualizing the work of literary history, from its beginnings to the present moment.Contributors trace the organization of literary information across China’s three millennia of history, examining the forms and practices of information management that have evolved alongside the increasing scale and complexity of textual production. They reimagine literary history as information processing, detailing the many kinds of storage, encoding, sorting, and transmission that constitute and feed back into China’s long and ever-growing cultural tradition. The volume features state-of-the-field essays on all major forms of literary information management, from graphs to internet literature, and from commentaries to literary museums and archives. By shifting focus from individual works and their authors to the informatic schemata of literature, it identifies three scales of information management—the word, the document, and the collection—and surveys the forms that operate at each level, such as the dictionary, the anthology, and the library.Literary Information in China is a groundbreaking work that provides a systematic and innovative reassessment of literary history with implications that extend beyond the particular Chinese context, revealing how informatic practices shape literary tradition.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

A NOTE TO READERS

CHRONOLOGY

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION For a History of Literary Information in China

PART I INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AT THE LEVEL OF THE WORD

SECTION A GRAPHS

CHAPTER 1 GRAPHS

CHAPTER 2 SCRIPT REFORM AND ALPHABETIZATION

CHAPTER 3 INDEXING SYSTEMS

CHAPTER 4 CHARACTER INPUT

SECTION B LEXICONS

CHAPTER 5 EARLY LEXICONS

CHAPTER 6 RIME TABLES

CHAPTER 7 LATER IMPERIAL LEXICONS

CHAPTER 8 EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY DICTIONARIES

CHAPTER 9 POST-1949 DICTIONARIES

CHAPTER 10 APP-BASED AND ONLINE DICTIONARIES

SECTION C TEXT AND TEXTUAL DIVISIONS

CHAPTER 11 SENTENCES, PARAGRAPHS, AND SECTIONS

CHAPTER 12 LINES, COUPLETS, AND STANZAS

CHAPTER 13 PREMODERN PUNCTUATION AND LAYOUT

CHAPTER 14 MODERN PUNCTUATION AND LAYOUT

SECTION D COMMENTARIES

CHAPTER 15 EARLY TO MIDDLE PERIOD CLASSICAL COMMENTARIES

CHAPTER 16 POETRY COMMENTARIES

CHAPTER 17 FICTION COMMENTARIES

CHAPTER 18 DRAMA COMMENTARIES

CHAPTER 19 READER’S GUIDES

PART II INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AT THE LEVEL OF THE DOCUMENT

SECTION A ANTHOLOGIES

CHAPTER 20 EARLY ANTHOLOGIES

CHAPTER 21 MEDIEVAL LITERARY ANTHOLOGIES

CHAPTER 22 LATER IMPERIAL POETRY ANTHOLOGIES

CHAPTER 23 LATER IMPERIAL PROSE ANTHOLOGIES

CHAPTER 24 RELIGIOUS LITERARY ANTHOLOGIES

CHAPTER 25 PREMODERN FICTION AND FICTION COLLECTIONS

CHAPTER 26 PREMODERN DRAMA ANTHOLOGIES

CHAPTER 27 MODERN LITERARY ANTHOLOGIES

CHAPTER 28 MODERN DRAMA SCRIPT ANTHOLOGIES

CHAPTER 29 TEXTBOOK ANTHOLOGIES

SECTION B ENCYCLOPEDIAS

CHAPTER 30 MEDIEVAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS

CHAPTER 31 MIDDLE PERIOD IMPERIAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS

CHAPTER 32 LATER IMPERIAL VERNACULAR ENCYCLOPEDIAS

CHAPTER 33 QING DYNASTY IMPERIAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS

CHAPTER 34 TWENTIETH-CENTURY VERNACULAR ENCYCLOPEDIAS

CHAPTER 35 ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND WIKIS

SECTION C HISTORIES

CHAPTER 36 EARLY HISTORIES

CHAPTER 37 EARLY MEDIEVAL HISTORIES

CHAPTER 38 DYNASTIC HISTORIES FROM TANG TO SONG

CHAPTER 39 LATE IMPERIAL HISTORIES

CHAPTER 40 LITERARY HISTORIES

PART III INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AT THE LEVEL OF THE COLLECTION

SECTION A LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS, AND ARCHIVES

CHAPTER 41 LIBRARIES FROM THE EARLY PERIOD TO THE TANG

CHAPTER 42 LIBRARIES FROM SONG TO QING

CHAPTER 43 LATE IMPERIAL LITERARY ARCHIVES

CHAPTER 44 MODERN LIBRARIES

CHAPTER 45 MODERN LITERATURE MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES

CHAPTER 46 DOCUMENT SERVICES

CHAPTER 47 THEMATIC RESEARCH COLLECTIONS

SECTION B BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDICES

CHAPTER 48 EARLY BIBLIOGRAPHIES

CHAPTER 49 MEDIEVAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES

CHAPTER 50 LATER IMPERIAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES

CHAPTER 51 TWENTIETH-CENTURY BIBLIOGRAPHIES

CHAPTER 52 INDICES AND CONCORDANCES

SECTION C SERIAL PUBLICATIONS

CHAPTER 53 PREMODERN LITERARY COLLECTANEA

CHAPTER 54 MODERN LITERARY COLLECTANEA

CHAPTER 55 LITERARY NEWSPAPERS AND TABLOIDS

CHAPTER 56 LITERARY JOURNALS

CHAPTER 57 OVERSEAS CHINESE NEWSPAPERS

CHAPTER 58 INTERNET LITERATURE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX OF PEOPLE AND SELECT INSTITUTIONS

INDEX OF DOCUMENTS, PUBLICATIONS, AND ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-231-55137-1

OCLC:

1262307282