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The Embodied Text: Establishing Textual Identity in Early Chinese Manuscripts - Hardcover

Book 18 of 19: Studies in the History of Chinese Texts

Richter, Matthias L.

 
9789004236578: The Embodied Text: Establishing Textual Identity in Early Chinese Manuscripts

Synopsis

In The Embodied Text Matthias 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.

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About the Author

Matthias L. Richter, Ph.D. (2000) Hamburg University, is Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has published books and articles on early Chinese literature, textual criticism, and manuscript studies, including Guan Ren (Bern, 2005).

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