
Transmitting Authority
Wang Tong (ca. 584-617) and the Zhongshuo in Medieval China's Manuscript Culture
Ding Xiang Warner(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 15. May 2014
Book
Hardback
238 pages
978-90-04-27321-4 (ISBN)
Description
Transmitting Authority investigates the rise and fall of the cultural currency of the Confucian teacher Wang Tong (ca. 584-617), a.k.a. Master Wenzhong, in the five centuries following his death, by examining the textual and social history of the Zhongshuo, which purports to record Wang Tong's teachings. Incorporating theories and methodologies from textual criticism, the history of the book, and cultural studies, Warner reveals evidence of the Zhongshuo's textual fluidity during the Tang and early Song dynasties, and argues that this fluidity attended the shifting terms of the Zhongshuo's cultural value for medieval China's literati culture. In doing so, Warner offers scholars a model for the study of other works whose textual problems and historical significance have hitherto seemed inscrutable.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
All interested in the history of the book in Asia and the world, especially in pre-modern Chinese textual studies and manuscript culture, and the intersections of these with intellectual history.
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
504 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-27321-4 (9789004273214)
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Person
Ding Xiang Warner is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Cornell University, author of A Wild Deer amid Soaring Phoenixes: The Opposition Poetics of Wang Ji (2003), and a co-editor of Brill's Studies in the History of Chinese Texts series.