Rewriting early Chinese texts

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Rewriting Early Chinese Texts examines the problems of reconstituting and editing ancient manuscripts that will revise-indeed "rewrite"--Chinese history. It is now generally recognized that the extensive archaeological discoveries made in China over the last three decades necessitate such a rewriting and will keep an army of scholars busy for years to come. However, this is by no means the first time China's historical record has needed rewriting. In this book, author Edward L. Shaughnessy expl…

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Full title :Rewriting early Chinese texts / Edward L. Shaughnessy.

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Publication Date:©2006.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):State University of New York Press
Place of Publication:Albany
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2006.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (v, 287 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1423766210, 9781423766216, 0791466434, 9780791466438, 9780791482353, 0791482359
oclc:ocm65339733
LC Classification:DS741.15
Dewey Decimal:931/.03

The editing of archaeologically recovered manuscripts and its implications for the study of received texts -- Rewriting the Zi yi : how one Chinese classic came to read as it does -- An annotated translation of the Guodian and Shanghai Museum manuscripts text of the Zi yi -- The received "Zi yi" -- The discovery and editing of the Ji Zhong texts -- The editing and editions of the Bamboo annals.

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China China -- Sources. -- History -- Han dyn… China -- Sources. -- History -- Qin dyn… China -- Sources. -- History -- To 221 … Chine -- Sources. -- Histoire -- 202 av… Chine -- Sources. -- Histoire -- 221-20… Chine -- Sources. -- Histoire -- Jusqu'… History Paleography, Chinese Sources To 220