The Embodied Text
Establishing Textual Identity in Early Chinese Manuscripts
Published on 9. January 2013
Book
Hardback
220 pages
978-90-04-23657-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
AAS Joseph Levenson Book Prize (Pre-1900 China):Honorable Mention: Matthias L. Richter: The Embodied Text: Establishing Textual Identity in Early Chinese Manuscripts (Brill)
'I would hate [..] to give the impression that I think this book is anything other than a superb work of scholarship. [...] in its care for the presentation of the manuscript itself, Richter's study of Min zhi fumu will surely serve as a model for future studies of the many individual manuscripts of ancient China that have been unearthed in recent years.'
Edward L. Shaughnessy, Journal of Chinese Studies, 59 (2014)
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
All interested in the study of Chinese manuscripts, in Warring States and early imperial Chinese literature and philosophy.
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
478 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-23657-8 (9789004236578)
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Person
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).