Writing early China
"Considers what unearthed written documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China"--
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Albany
State University of New York Press
[2023]
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| Schriftenreihe: | SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Considers what unearthed written documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China"-- Archaeological discoveries over the past one hundred years have resulted in repeated calls to "rewrite ancient Chinese history." This is especially true of documents written on oracle bones, bronze vessels, and bamboo strips. In Writing Early China, Edward L. Shaughnessy surveys all of these types of documents and considers what they reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China. Opposed to the common view that most knowledge was transmitted orally in ancient China, Shaughnessy demonstrates that by no later than the tenth century BCE scribes were writing lengthy texts like portions of Chinese classics, and that by the fourth century BCE the primary mode of textual transmission was by way of visual copying from one manuscript to another--back cover |
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| Beschreibung: | xi, 419 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781438495224 9781438495217 |