Early Chinese Manuscript Collections

Early Chinese Manuscript Collections
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 9789004540842
ISBN-13 : 9004540849
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Book Synopsis Early Chinese Manuscript Collections by : Rens Krijgsman

Download or read book Early Chinese Manuscript Collections written by Rens Krijgsman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first study of manuscript collections, this book asks what changes when sayings, stories, songs, and spells are brought together on the same carrier. Covering a plethora of manuscripts from the Warring States and early empires, and spanning sources from philosophy, historiography, poetry, and technical literature, this study describes the whole life-cycle of multiple texts collected on a single manuscript. Drawing on comparative and interdisciplinary advances and based on careful study of manuscript materiality and textuality, this book shows the importance of collections in the development of and access to text and knowledge in early China.


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