The Craft of Oblivion: Forgetting and Memory in Ancient China

Author:   Albert Galvany
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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Pages:   380
Publication Date:   01 July 2023
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Author:   Albert Galvany
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
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9781438493756


ISBN 10:   1438493754
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   01 July 2023
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Format:   Hardback
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Albert Galvany PART I. HISTORIOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL NARRATIVES 1. Cultural Amnesia and Commentarial Retrofitting: Interpreting the Spring and Autumn Newell Ann Van Auken 2. Elision and Narration: Remembering and Forgetting in Some Recently Unearthed Historiographical Manuscripts Rens Krijgsman 3. Shaping the Historian’s Project: Language of Forgetting and Obliteration in the Shiji Esther Sunkyung Klein 4. The Ice of Memory and the Fires of Forgetfulness: Traumatic Recollections in the Wu Yue Chunqiu Olivia Milburn PART II. PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS 5. The Daode jing’s Forgotten Forebear: The Ancestral Cult K. E. Brashier 6. So Comfortable You’ll Forget You’re Wearing Them: Attention and Forgetting in the Zhuangzi and Huainanzi Franklin Perkins 7. The Practice of Erasing Traces in the Huainanzi Tobias Benedikt Zürn 8. The Oblivious against the Doctor: Pathologies of Remembering and Virtues of Forgetting in the Liezi Albert Galvany 9. Wang Bi and the Hermeneutics of Actualization Mercedes Valmisa PART III. RITUAL AND LITERARY TEXTS 10. Embodied Memory and Natural Forgetting in Early Chinese Ritual Theory Paul Nicholas Vogt 11. Exile and Return: Oblivion, Memory, and Nontragic Death in Tomb-Quelling Texts from the Eastern Han Dynasty Xiang Li 12. Lost in Where We Are: Tao Yuanming on the Joys of Forgetting and the Worries of Being Forgotten Michael D. K. Ing Contributors Index

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The papers in this volume examine memory-and forgetting-from an impressive variety of perspectives. In their different approaches and the sources they engage, the authors bring a new richness to the study of memory in premodern China. They show us that a sophisticated regarding of the past is not only the province of the modern but existed since antiquity in ways that can still surprise us. - Charles Sanft, author of Literate Community in Early Imperial China: The Northwestern Frontier in Han Times


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Albert Galvany Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU.

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