LEADER 04369nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910815608603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7914-8235-9 010 $a1-4237-6621-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780791482353 035 $a(CKB)1000000000460847 035 $a(OCoLC)461443042 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579146 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000237860 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11199855 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237860 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10222109 035 $a(PQKB)11219307 035 $a(OCoLC)65339733 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6357 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407723 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579146 035 $a(OCoLC)923407739 035 $a(DE-B1597)682936 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791482353 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407723 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000460847 100 $a20050215d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRewriting early Chinese texts /$fEdward L. Shaughnessy 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (297 p.) 225 1 $aSUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-6644-2 311 $a0-7914-6643-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-275) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tDedication -- $tIntroduction -- $tThe Editing of Archaeologically Recovered Manuscripts and its Implications for the Study of Received Texts -- $tRewriting The Zi Yi: How One Chinese Classic Came to Read as it does -- $tThe Discovery and Editing of the Ji Zhong Texts -- $tThe Editing and Editions of the Bamboo Annals -- $tConclusion -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aRewriting Early Chinese Texts examines the problems of reconstituting and editing ancient manuscripts that will revise?indeed "rewrite"?Chinese history. It is now generally recognized that the extensive archaeological discoveries made in China over the last three decades necessitate such a rewriting and will keep an army of scholars busy for years to come. However, this is by no means the first time China's historical record has needed rewriting. In this book, author Edward L. Shaughnessy explores the issues involved in editing manuscripts, rewriting them, both today and in the past.The book begins with a discussion of the difficulties encountered by modern archaeologists and paleographers working with manuscripts discovered in ancient tombs. The challenges are considerable: these texts are usually written in archaic script on bamboo strips and are typically fragmentary and in disarray. It is not surprising that their new editions often meet with criticism from other scholars. Shaughnessy then moves back in time to consider efforts to reconstitute similar bamboo-strip manuscripts found in the late third century in a tomb in Jixian, Henan. He shows that editors at the time encountered many of the same difficulties faced by modern archaeologists and paleographers, and that the first editions produced by a court-appointed team of editors quickly prompted criticism from other scholars of the time. Shaughnessy concludes with a detailed study of the editing of one of these texts, the Bamboo Annals (Zhushu jinian), arguably the most important manuscript ever discovered in China. Showing how at least two different, competing editions of this text were produced by different editors, and how the differences between them led later scholars to regard the original edition?the only one still extant?as a forgery, Shaughnessy argues for this text's place in the rewriting of early Chinese history. 410 0$aSUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture. 606 $aPaleography, Chinese 607 $aChina$xHistory$yTo 221 B.C$vSources 607 $aChina$xHistory$yQin dynasty, 221-207 B.C$vSources 607 $aChina$xHistory$yHan dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D$vSources 615 0$aPaleography, Chinese. 676 $a931/.03 700 $aShaughnessy$b Edward L.$f1952-$0456789 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815608603321 996 $aRewriting early Chinese texts$94029613 997 $aUNINA