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The empire of the text : writing and authority in early imperial China / Christopher Leigh Connery.

By: Publication details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c1998.Description: xiv, 209 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0847687384 (alk. paper)
  • 9780847687381 (alk. paper)
  • 0847687392 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780847687398 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Writing and authority in early imperial China
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Empire of the text.DDC classification:
  • 895.1/09 21
LOC classification:
  • PL2262 .C75 1998
Also issued online.
Contents:
Texts, textual authority, literacy, ideology -- The origin of writing -- Writing, word, lexicon -- Literacy, canonicity, transmission, and text-systems -- Texts in their place: Han bibliography -- Textuality takes command -- Written on bamboo, silk, wood, stone, and paper: the materiality of the text -- Reading and writing -- Who were the Shi? -- A brief social history of the latter Han Shi -- Regional or imperial? -- The affair of the proscribed factions (danggu), 167-184 C.E -- The Shi and dynastic collapse -- Lifestyle, exemplary life, textualized life -- Re-theorizing the Shi: sociotextual formation -- Theorizing the relationship between the Shi and the state -- The specter of asociality -- Work, family, state, and homosociality -- Late Han philosophical writing on homosocial relationships -- Evaluation and recommendation -- Reading the person -- What is Chinese literature? -- Late Han poetry and the subjectivity question -- Orality -- Social poetic practice -- Intertextual composition -- In conclusion: a humanist fantasy -- Group composition of Fu -- Glossary of select Chinese terms and phrases.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-203) and index.

Texts, textual authority, literacy, ideology -- The origin of writing -- Writing, word, lexicon -- Literacy, canonicity, transmission, and text-systems -- Texts in their place: Han bibliography -- Textuality takes command -- Written on bamboo, silk, wood, stone, and paper: the materiality of the text -- Reading and writing -- Who were the Shi? -- A brief social history of the latter Han Shi -- Regional or imperial? -- The affair of the proscribed factions (danggu), 167-184 C.E -- The Shi and dynastic collapse -- Lifestyle, exemplary life, textualized life -- Re-theorizing the Shi: sociotextual formation -- Theorizing the relationship between the Shi and the state -- The specter of asociality -- Work, family, state, and homosociality -- Late Han philosophical writing on homosocial relationships -- Evaluation and recommendation -- Reading the person -- What is Chinese literature? -- Late Han poetry and the subjectivity question -- Orality -- Social poetic practice -- Intertextual composition -- In conclusion: a humanist fantasy -- Group composition of Fu -- Glossary of select Chinese terms and phrases.

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