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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Martin KernPublisher: University of Washington Press Imprint: University of Washington Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.671kg ISBN: 9780295996035ISBN 10: 029599603 Pages: 362 Publication Date: 16 July 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Ritual Texture of Early China / Martin Kern 1. Toward an Archaeology of Writing: Text, Ritual, and the Culture of Public Display in the Classical Period (475 B.C.E.-220 C.E.) / Michael Nylan 2. The Composite Nature of Early Chinese Texts / William G. Boltz 3. The E Jun Qi Metal Tallies: Inscribed Texts and Ritual Contexts / Lothar von Falkenhausen 4. The Ritual Meaning of Textual Form: Evidence from Early Commentaries of the Historiographic and Ritual Traditions / Joachim Gentz 5. The Odes in Excavated Manuscripts / Martin Kern 6. Playing at Critique: Indirect Remonstrance and the Formation of Shi Identity / David Schaberg 7. Reimagining the Yellow Emperor's Four Faces / Mark Csikszentmihalyi 8. Text and Ritual in Early Chinese Stelae / K. E. Brashier Works Cited Contributors IndexReviewsIt is certainly highly commendable that Kern brought this group of internationally recognized experts together to study the subject of ritual, a subject that has been unjustifiably overlooked in analyses of pre-modern China, where it held a central place in political, social, and religious life. For this reason alone, I strongly recommend this book... this volume is a most welcome addition to the scholarship on early China and shows how much can be learned from the new epigraphic sources. Journal of Chinese Religions This is a serious and coherent collection of studies that will inspire readers to rethink the social contexts of documents that have become fundamental to Chinese culture. Journal of Asian Studies Publication of Text and Ritual in Early China is an exceptionally important event for scholars of pre-imperial and early imperial Chinese history..By opening new avenues for research, the contributors to Text and Ritual have already begun to reshape the field, achieving a major scholarly breakthrough. Journal of the American Oriental Society No other work currently available takes as seriously the symbiosis between ritual and text as does this one. While recent literary study has brought to the forefront the composite nature of the early classical texts of China, this work asks us to rethink not only how many of these logia may have had their origins in ritual practice, but also how the assemblage of the texts themselves may have been ritual acts. Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy Crossing the fields of Chinese history, literature, philology, and archaeology, this important collection examines understanding of the most fundamental aspects of the Chinese literary tradition and challenges established ideas about classical Han (206 BCE-220 CE) and pre-Han texts. Kern (Princeton) provides a stimulating introduction and then eight essays, one of his own and others by leading scholars of their fields... Each chapter is a scholarly thrill, and the extensive bibliography is a valuable resource. Choice Crossing the fields of Chinese history, literature, philology, and archaeology, this important collection examines understanding of the most fundamental aspects of the Chinese literary tradition and challenges established ideas about classical Han (206 BCE-220 CE) and pre-Han texts. Kern (Princeton) provides a stimulating introduction and then eight essays, one of his own and others by leading scholars of their fields. . . . Each chapter is a scholarly thrill, and the extensive bibliography is a valuable resource. * Choice * No other work currently available takes as seriously the symbiosis between ritual and text as does this one. While recent literary study has brought to the forefront the composite nature of the early classical texts of China, this work asks us to rethink not only how many of these logia may have had their origins in ritual practice, but also how the assemblage of the texts themselves may have been ritual acts. * Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy * Publication of Text and Ritual in Early China is an exceptionally important event for scholars of pre-imperial and early imperial Chinese history..By opening new avenues for research, the contributors to Text and Ritual have already begun to reshape the field, achieving a major scholarly breakthrough. * Journal of the American Oriental Society * This is a serious and coherent collection of studies that will inspire readers to rethink the social contexts of documents that have become fundamental to Chinese culture. * Journal of Asian Studies * It is certainly highly commendable that Kern brought this group of internationally recognized experts together to study the subject of ritual, a subject that has been unjustifiably overlooked in analyses of pre-modern China, where it held a central place in political, social, and religious life. For this reason alone, I strongly recommend this book. . . . this volume is a most welcome addition to the scholarship on early China and shows how much can be learned from the new epigraphic sources. * Journal of Chinese Religions * Author InformationMartin Kern is associate professor of East Asian studies at Princeton University. The other contributors are William G. Boltz, K. E. Brashier, Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Joachim Gentz, Michael Nylan, David Schaberg, and Lothar von Falkenhausen. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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