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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779177303321

Titolo

Writing & literacy in early China [[electronic resource] ] : studies from the Columbia Early China Seminar / / edited by Li Feng and David Prager Branner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2011

ISBN

0-295-80450-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (514 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LiFeng <1962->

BrannerDavid Prager

Disciplina

302.2/2440931

Soggetti

Chinese language - To 600

Chinese language - Writing - History

Literacy - China - History

Books and reading - China - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : writing as a phenomenon of literacy / Li Feng and David Prager Branner -- Getting "right" with heaven and the origins of writing in China / David W. Pankenier -- Literacy and the emergence of writing in China / William G. Boltz -- Phonology in the Chinese script and its relationship to early Chinese literacy / David Prager Branner -- Literacy to the south and the east of Anyang in Shang China : Zhengzhou and Daxinzhuang / Ken-ichi Takashima -- The evidence for scribal training at Anyang / Adam Smith -- Textual identity and the role of literacy in the transmission of early Chinese literature / Matthias L. Richter -- The royal audience and its reflections in western Zhou bronze inscriptions / Lothar von Falkenhausen -- Literacy and the social contexts of writing in the western Zhou / Li Feng -- Education and the way of the former kings / Constance A. Cook -- Soldiers, scribes, and women : literacy among the lower orders in early China / Robin D.S. Yates -- Craftsman's literacy : uses of writing by male and female artisans in Qin and Han China / Anthony J. Barbieri-Low.