China S Philological Turn

Author : Ori Sela
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 331 pages
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Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231545174

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In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts and meanings and with the centrality of facts and truth to their scholarship and identity. With the power to construct the textual past, philology has the potential to shape both individual and collective identities, and its rise to prominence consequently deeply affected contemporaneous political, social, and cultural agendas. Ori Sela foregrounds the polymath Qian Daxin (1728–1804), one of the most distinguished scholars of the Qing dynasty, to tell this story. China’s Philological Turn traces scholars’ social networks and the production of knowledge, considering the texts they studied along with their reading practices and the assumptions about knowledge, facts, and truth that came with them. The book considers fundamental issues of eighteenth-century intellectual life: the tension between antiquity’s elevated status and the question of what antiquity actually was; the status of scientific knowledge, especially astronomy, mathematics, and calendrical studies; and the relationship between learned debates and cultural anxieties, especially scholars’ self-characterization and collective identity. Sela brings to light manuscripts, biographies, letters, handwritten notes, epitaphs, and more to highlight the creativity and openness of his subjects. A pioneering book in the cultural history of intellectuals across disciplinary boundaries, China’s Philological Turn reconstructs the history of eighteenth-century Chinese learning and its long-lasting consequences.

Author : Joseph Edkins
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368135799

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China's Place in Philology by Joseph Edkins Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Author : Robert Morrison
Publisher : London : Black, Parbury & Allen ; Macao : Printed at the East India Company's Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011934242

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A View of China for Philological Purposes by Robert Morrison Pdf

Author : Nathan Vedal
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231553766

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The Culture of Language in Ming China by Nathan Vedal Pdf

Winner, 2023 Morris D. Forkosch Prize, Journal of the History of Ideas The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China (1368–1644) is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccupation among Ming thinkers with specialized linguistic learning, a field typically associated with the intellectual revolution of the eighteenth century. He explores the collaboration of Confucian classicists and Buddhist monks, opera librettists and cosmological theorists, who joined forces in the pursuit of a universal theory of language. Drawing on a wide range of overlooked scholarly texts, literary commentaries, and pedagogical materials, Vedal examines how Ming scholars positioned the study of language within an interconnected nexus of learning. He argues that for sixteenth- and seventeenth-century thinkers, the boundaries among the worlds of classicism, literature, music, cosmology, and religion were far more fluid and porous than they became later. In the eighteenth century, Qing thinkers pared away these other fields from linguistic learning, creating a discipline focused on corroborating the linguistic features of ancient texts. Documenting a major transformation in knowledge production, this book provides a framework for rethinking global early modern intellectual developments. It offers a powerful alternative to the conventional understanding of late imperial Chinese intellectual history by focusing on the methods of scholarly practice and the boundaries by which contemporary thinkers defined their field of study.

Author : Associate Professor of English Robert Morrison,Robert Morrison
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1333572506

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A View of China for Philological Purposes by Associate Professor of English Robert Morrison,Robert Morrison Pdf

Excerpt from A View of China for Philological Purposes: Containing a Sketch of Chinese Chronology, Geography, Government, Religion and Customs; Designed for the Use of Persons Who Study the Chinese Language Government, Names and Functions of the Officers of Government, Of the Supreme Government, Of Provincial Government, Civil O icers, Military Officers, Of the Nine Ranks, Literary Examinations, time; The Twenty-eight Constellation 3, Terms, twenty-four in the year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Author : MICHAEL J. HATCH.
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271096216

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NETWORKS OF TOUCH;A TACTILE HISTORY OF CHINESE ART, 17901840 by MICHAEL J. HATCH. Pdf

Author : Daiyun Yue
Publisher : Springer
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811011160

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China and the West at the Crossroads by Daiyun Yue Pdf

Beginning with a retrospective of the past century, this book offers a panoramic picture of Chinese comparative literature, from its nascence in the early 1920s, through its evolution in the 1980s, to the new development at the turn of the century, ending with a prospective look at the future of comparative literature in the 21st century. The articles presented here reveal the author’s deep understandings of the literature and culture of her own country and those of other countries. A rich array of case studies and in-depth theorizing make it an extremely interesting and enlightening read. Prof. Daiyun Yue is a prominent professor at Peking University and a leading figure in Chinese comparative literature. She has served as Head of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, PKU (1984—1998) and the third president of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association (1989—2014). Further, she is the founder of Dialogue Transculturel, a much-acclaimed journal of comparative literature. Prof. Yue approaches outstanding literature as a bridge to link people of different cultural traditions: “The reason why interdisciplinary literary research between two alien cultures is possible is because dialog between alien cultures, along with exchange and understanding, is more readily realized through literature.” Herein lies the value of comparative literature.

Author : Joseph Edkins
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9353977002

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China's Place in Philology by Joseph Edkins Pdf

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Author : Professor of English Literature Robert Morrison
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1357548346

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A View of China for Philological Purposes by Professor of English Literature Robert Morrison Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Michael J. Hatch
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Art, Chinese
ISBN : 9780271096223

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Networks of Touch by Michael J. Hatch Pdf

Author : Alexander Statman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226825748

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A Global Enlightenment by Alexander Statman Pdf

A revisionist history of the idea of progress reveals an unknown story about European engagement with Chinese science. The Enlightenment gave rise not only to new ideas of progress but consequential debates about them. Did distant times and places have anything to teach the here and now? Voltaire could believe that they did; Hegel was convinced that they did not. Early philosophes praised Chinese philosophy as an enduring model of reason. Later philosophes rejected it as stuck in the past. Seeking to vindicate ancient knowledge, a group of French statesmen and savants began a conversation with the last great scholar of the Jesuit mission to China. Together, they drew from Chinese learning to challenge the emerging concept of Western advancement. A Global Enlightenment traces this overlooked exchange between China and the West to make compelling claims about the history of progress, notions of European exceptionalism, and European engagement with Chinese science. To tell this story, Alexander Statman focuses on a group of thinkers he terms “orphans of the Enlightenment,” intellectuals who embraced many of their contemporaries’ ideals but valued ancient wisdom. They studied astronomical records, gas balloons, electrical machines, yin-yang cosmology, animal magnetism, and Daoist medicine. And their inquiries helped establish a new approach to the global history of science. Rich with new archival research and fascinating anecdotes, A Global Enlightenment deconstructs two common assumptions about the early to late modern period. Though historians have held that the idea of a mysterious and inscrutable East was inherent in Enlightenment progress theory, Statman argues that it was the orphans of the Enlightenment who put it there: by identifying China as a source of ancient wisdom, they turned it into a foil for scientific development. But while historical consensus supposes that non-Western ideas were banished from European thought over the course of the Enlightenment, Statman finds that Europeans became more interested in Chinese science—as a precursor, then as an antithesis, and finally as an alternative to modernity.

Author : Gina Anne Tam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478281

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Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960 by Gina Anne Tam Pdf

Analyzes how fangyan (local Chinese languages or dialects) were central to the creation of modern Chinese nationalism.

Author : Yinzong Wei
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004508477

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Scholars and Their Marginalia in Late Imperial China by Yinzong Wei Pdf

The first book on the “marginalia culture” of late Imperial China, this study introduces the features of marginalia, examines scholars’ reading practices and scholarly style centred on marginalia and explores how this “marginalia culture” shaped Chinese texts and scholars’ thought.

Author : Jinxing Huang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0521529468

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Philosophy, Philology, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century China by Jinxing Huang Pdf

This book explains the contributions of Li Fu to the Lu-Wang school of Confucianism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004423626

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Powerful Arguments by Anonim Pdf

The essays in Powerful Arguments reconstruct the standards of validity underlying argumentative practices in a wide array of late imperial Chinese discourses, ranging from historiography, philosophy, law and religion to natural studies, literature, and the civil examination system.