Early Chinese Manuscript Collections Sayings, Memory, Verse, and Knowledge

• Main Author: Krijgsman, Rens (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Brill 2023
• Subjects: Asian history; Literature: history & criticism; China; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; ancient; anthology; canonization; daybooks; divination; Guodian manuscripts; historiography; literacy; literature; materiality; orality; philology; poetry; Shanghai Museum manuscripts; text culture; Tsinghua manuscripts
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As the first study of manuscript collections, this book asks what changes when sayings, stories, songs, and spells are brought together on the same carrier. Covering a plethora of manuscripts from the Warring States and early empires, and spanning sources from philosophy, historiography, poetry, and...