Text and Ritual in Early China

Herausgeber: Kern, Martin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

NEW IN PAPERBACK"Crossing the fields of Chinese history, literature, philology, and archaeology, this important collection examines understanding of the most fundamental aspects of the Chinese literary tradition and challenges established ideas about classical Han (206 BCE-220 CE) and pre-Han texts."ChoiceMartin Kern is associate professor of East Asian studies at Princeton University. The other contributors are William G. Boltz, K. E. Brashier, Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Joachim Gentz, Michael Nylan, David Schaberg, and Lothar von Falkenhausen.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 173mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780295987873
• ISBN-10: 0295987871
• Artikelnr.: 23428855

Autorenporträt

Martin Kern is associate professor of East Asian studies at Princeton University. The other contributors are William G. Boltz, K. E. Brashier, Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Joachim Gentz, Michael Nylan, David Schaberg, and Lothar von Falkenhausen.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Ritual Texture of Early China / Martin Kern
1. Toward an Archaeology of Writing: Text, Ritual, and the Culture of
Public Display in the Classical Period (475 B.C.E.-220 C.E.) / Michael
Nylan
2. The Composite Nature of Early Chinese Texts / William G. Boltz
3. The E Jun Qi Metal Tallies: Inscribed Texts and Ritual Contexts / Lothar
von Falkenhausen
4. The Ritual Meaning of Textual Form: Evidence from Early Commentaries of
the Historiographic and Ritual Traditions / Joachim Gentz
5. The Odes in Excavated Manuscripts / Martin Kern
6. Playing at Critique: Indirect Remonstrance and the Formation of Shi
Identity / David Schaberg
7. Reimagining the Yellow Emperor's Four Faces / Mark Csikszentmihalyi
8. Text and Ritual in Early Chinese Stelae / K. E. Brashier
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