Writing Early China

Author:   Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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Pages:   432
Publication Date:   01 November 2023
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Author:   Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438495224


ISBN 10:   1438495226
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   01 November 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Inscriptions 1. History and Inscriptions 2. The Bin Gong Xu Inscription and the Origins of the Chinese Literary Tradition 3. The Writing of a Late Western Zhou Bronze Inscription 4. On the Casting of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Shi Wang Ding: With Remarks on the Important Position of Writing in the Consciousness of Ancient China Part II: The Classics 5. A Possible Lost Classic: The *She Ming or *Command to She 6. Varieties of Textual Variants: Evidence from the Tsinghua Bamboo-Slip *Ming Xun Manuscript 7. Unearthed Documents and the Question of the Oral versus Written Nature of the Shi Jing 8. A First Reading of the Anhui University Bamboo-Slip Shi Jing Part III: Manuscripts 9. The Mu Tianzi Zhuan and King Mu–Period Bronzes 10. The Tsinghua Manuscript *Zheng Wen Gong wen Tai Bo and the Question of the Production of Manuscripts in Early China 11. The Eighth Century BCE Civil War in Jin as Seen in the Bamboo Annals: On the Nature of the Tomb Text and Its Significance for the “Current” Bamboo Annals 12. The Qin *Bian Nian Ji and the Beginnings of Historical Writing in China Notes Bibliography Index

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"""By emphasizing the importance of writing, Shaughnessy presents a welcome complement to scholarship emphasizing the role of orality in early Chinese textual culture. There are few scholars as well-versed in newly discovered textual sources, including the Tsinghua and Anhui University collections. Shaughnessy introduces readers to important new texts, on some of which very little has so far been published in English, and he demonstrates and explains important methodological issues in studying these materials. This book will naturally attract students of early China, but it should also find interest much more broadly, both among historians of antiquity in other parts of the world as well as scholars specializing in other periods of Chinese history."" — Matthias L. Richter, author of The Embodied Text: Establishing Textual Identity in Early Chinese Manuscripts"


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Edward L. Shaughnessy is Creel Distinguished Service Professor of Early China in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Rewriting Early Chinese Texts, also published by SUNY Press.

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