Early Chinese Manuscript Collections

Author : Rens Krijgsman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004540842

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Early Chinese Manuscript Collections by Rens Krijgsman Pdf

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 technical literature, this study describes the whole life-cycle of multiple texts collected on a single manuscript. Drawing on comparative and interdisciplinary advances and based on careful study of manuscript materiality and textuality, this book shows the importance of collections in the development of and access to text and knowledge in early China.

Author : Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791482353

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Rewriting Early Chinese Texts by Edward L. Shaughnessy Pdf

Explores the rewriting of early Chinese texts in the wake of new archaeological evidence.

Author : Paul Unschuld,Jinsheng ZHENG
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 2838 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004229099

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Chinese Traditional Healing (3 vols) by Paul Unschuld,Jinsheng ZHENG Pdf

Research on past knowledge, practices, personnel and institutions of Chinese health care has focussed on printed text for many decades. The Berlin collections of handwritten Chinese volumes on health and healing from the past 400 years provide a hitherto unprecedented access to a wide range of data. They extend the reach of medical historiography beyond the literature written by and for a small social elite to the reality of health care as practiced by private households, lay healers, pharmacists, professional doctors, magicians, itinerant healers and others. The nearly 900 volumes surveyed here for the first time demonstrate the heterogeneity of Chinese traditional healing. They evidence the continuation of millennia-old therapeutic approaches long discarded by the elite, and they show continuous adaptation to more recent trends.

Author : Frank Herring Chalfant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : OCLC:43882801

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Early Chinese Writing by Frank Herring Chalfant Pdf

Author : Frank Herring Chalfant
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1290779902

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Early Chinese Writing by Frank Herring Chalfant Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Imre Galambos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Chinese characters
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123912078

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Orthography of Early Chinese Writing by Imre Galambos Pdf

Author : Donald Harper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136172441

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Early Chinese Medical Literature by Donald Harper Pdf

First published in 1998. This study uses the Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts to form a basis for information about early Chinese medical literature. Since the 1970S there has been a succession of manuscript discoveries in late-fourth to second century B.C. tombs in several regions of China, the provinces of Hubei and Hunan being particularly fertile ground for manuscripts. The medical Mawangdui manuscripts are part of a large cache of manuscripts discovered in 1973 in Mawangdui tomb 3, situated in the north-eastern part of the city of Changsha, Hunan.

Author : Donald Harper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136172373

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Early Chinese Medical Literature by Donald Harper Pdf

First published in 1998. This study uses the Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts to form a basis for information about early Chinese medical literature. Since the 1970S there has been a succession of manuscript discoveries in late-fourth to second century B.C. tombs in several regions of China, the provinces of Hubei and Hunan being particularly fertile ground for manuscripts. The medical Mawangdui manuscripts are part of a large cache of manuscripts discovered in 1973 in Mawangdui tomb 3, situated in the north-eastern part of the city of Changsha, Hunan.

Author : Brent Pedersen
Publisher : Nordic Inst of Asian Studies
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8776941361

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Catalogue of Chinese Manuscripts and Rare Books by Brent Pedersen Pdf

This two volume selection features 335 Chinese manuscripts and rare books held at the Royal Library in Copenhagen. Designed as a source of reference for scholars working in all aspects of manuscript and rare book studies, the catalog includes over 290 full page illustrations that help identify most of the books and manuscripts listed.

Author : Albert Galvany
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438493770

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The Craft of Oblivion by Albert Galvany Pdf

The Craft of Oblivion is an innovative and groundbreaking volume that aims to study, for the first time, the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization. Oblivion has tended to be relegated to a marginal position, often conceived as the mere destructive or undesirable opposite of memory, even though it performs an essential function in our lives. Forgetting and memory, far from being autonomous and mutually exclusive spheres, should be seen as interdependent phenomena. Drawing on perspectives from history, philosophy, literature, and religion, and examining both transmitted texts and excavated materials, the contributors to this volume analyze various ways of understanding oblivion and its complex and fertile relations with memory in ancient China.

Author : Alessandro Bausi,Christian Brockmann,Michael Friedrich,Sabine Kienitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110541571

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Manuscripts and Archives by Alessandro Bausi,Christian Brockmann,Michael Friedrich,Sabine Kienitz Pdf

Archives are considered to be collections of administrative, legal, commercial and other records or the actual place where they are located. They have become ubiquitous in the modern world, but emerged not much later than the invention of writing. Following Foucault, who first used the word archive in a metaphorical sense as "the general system of the formation and transformation of statements" in his "Archaeology of Knowledge" (1969), postmodern theorists have tried to exploit the potential of this concept and initiated the "archival turn". In recent years, however, archives have attracted the attention of anthropologists and historians of different denominations regarding them as historical objects and "grounding" them again in real institutions. The papers in this volume explore the complex topic of the archive in a historical, systematic and comparative context and view it in the broader context of manuscript cultures by addressing questions like how, by whom and for which purpose were archival records produced, and if they differ from literary manuscripts regarding materials, formats, and producers (scribes).

Author : Benoît Vermander
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040010082

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Textual Patterns and Cosmic Designs in Early China by Benoît Vermander Pdf

Via a hermeneutics focused on Chinese numerology and concentric arrangements, this book offers a novel construal of the textual universe proper to early China writings. The author lays bare distinguishable patterns of textual composition while relating them to corresponding patterns of thinking. He differentiates rhetorical variants through detailed studies of the Zhuangzi’s Inner chapters, the Laozi, the Analects, and the Huainanzi. The philosophical depth and relevance of the Chinese ancient worldview appear in a fresh light when one unearths the patterns into which its content is embedded. The focus on textual patterns and rhetorical arrangements also facilitates the reading of Chinese classics alongside other traditions. The book will be a valuable reference for scholars and graduate students studying Chinese literary criticism, Chinese philosophy, and comparative philosophy.

Author : Martin Svensson Ekström
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438495408

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The Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics by Martin Svensson Ekström Pdf

The Shijing ("Canon of Odes") is China's oldest poetry collection, traditionally considered to have been edited by Confucius himself. Despite their enormous importance for Confucianism and Chinese civilization, the 305 odes have for millennia also puzzled readers. Why did the Sage include in the Canon apparently lewd poems about women promising men to "hitch up" their skirts and "wade the river," and men "tossing and turning in bed" yearning for young women? What did the innumerable representations of plants, beasts, and birds, and of various climactic and astronomical phenomena, signify beyond their immediate function as natural descriptions? One such puzzled reader was Mao Heng, a learned Confucian employed at a minor court in the mid-second century BCE. The object of this study is the Commentary that Mao composed on the Odes, and in particular the hermeneutic tool—the xing—that he invented to explain the figurality and tropes at play in them. Mao's "xingish" interpretation of the Odes is both genuinely hermeneutic, in that it explains the rhetorical organization of these poems, and thoroughly ideological, since it allows Mao to transform them into Confucian dogma. The book also argues that the xing, content, function, and cultural importance, is comparable to the Aristotelian concept of metaphor (metaphora), and that the xing, the Odes, and the practice of shi (Chinese "poetry") demand an intercultural, "comparative" reading for a more nuanced understanding.

Author : Dirk Meyer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004208087

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Philosophy on Bamboo by Dirk Meyer Pdf

Scholarship on early Chinese thought has long tended to treat texts as mere repositories of ideas rather than as meaningful objects in their own right. Not only does this approach present an idealised account of China’s intellectual past, but it also imposes artificial boundaries between textual and philosophical traditions. As the first study to treat text as a cultural phenomenon during the Warring States period, this book demonstrates the interplay among the material conditions of text and manuscript culture, writing, and thought. Through close readings of philosophical texts excavated at Guōdiàn, it analyses crucial strategies of meaning construction and casts light on the ways in which different communities used texts to philosophical ends. Meyer thus establishes new understandings of the correlation between ideas, their material carrier, and the production of meaning in early China.

Author : Shu Chao Hu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000315882

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The Development Of The Chinese Collection In The Library Of Congress by Shu Chao Hu Pdf

This is the first comprehensive and in-depth study of the Chinese collection in the Library of Congress, the largest collection of its kind in the Western world. Started in 1869 with some 950 books received in the first exhange of publications between the United States and China, the collection has grown so steadily that in 1977 it numbered more than 430,000 volumes, including 2,000 rare Chinese items, some of which were printed in A.D. 975. In this primarily historical study, Professor Hu examines the social, cultural, and political forces that led to the development and growth of the collection, the acquisitions policies followed, and the sources of personal and financial support found within and outside the Library of Congress. He also explores the methods by which the library has built up several strong areas in the collection, particularly those of Chinese gazetteers, or local histories; ts’ung-shu, or collections of reprints; and rare works.