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Record Nr.

UNINA9910309748403321

Autore

Zhang Hanmo

Titolo

Authorship and Text-making in Early China / / Hanmo Zhang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2018

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-5015-0513-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 pages)

Collana

Library of Sinology ; ; 2

Disciplina

400

Soggetti

Autorschaft

Chinesische Texte

Confucius

Liu An

Methodik

Sima Qian

Sinologie

Yellow Emperor

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Authorship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2012.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-345) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Text, Author, and the Function of Authorship -- 2. The Author as Cultural Hero: The Yellow Emperor, the Symbolic Author -- 3. The Author as the Head of a Teaching Lineage: Confucius, the Quotable Author -- 4. The Author as a Patron: Prince of Huainan, the Owner-Author -- 5. The Author as an Individual Writer: Sima Qian, the Presented Author -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a timely response to a rather urgent call to seek an updated methodology in rereading and reappraising early Chinese texts in light of newly discovered early writings. For a long time, the concept of authorship in the formation and transmission of early Chinese texts has been misunderstood. The nominal author who should mainly



function as a guide to text formation and interpretation is considered retrospectively as the originator and writer of the text. This book illustrates that although some notions about the text as the author's property began to appear in some Eastern Han texts, a strict correlation between the author and the text results from later conceptions of literary history. Before the modern era, there existed a conceptual gap between an author and a writer. A pre-modern Chinese text could have had both an author and a writer, or even multiple authors and multiple writers. This work is the first study addressing these issues by more systematically emphasizing the connection of the text, the author, and the religious and sociopolitical settings in which these issues were embedded. It is expected to constitute a palpable contribution to Chinese studies and the discipline of philology in general