The Empire of the Text

Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China

von Christopher Leigh Connery

224 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This unique study argues that in the Qin-Han period, there arose in China a regime of textual authority_one that overlapped but did not coincide with imperial authority. Drawing on a wide range of research and theory, Connery makes an original contribution to the analysis of early imperial elite culture, particularly in the fields of literature and linguistics, intellectual, and institutional history. The author provides new contexts for thinking about canonization and textual transmission systems, an innovative framework for analysis and discussion of the early imperial elite, a socio-ideological exploration of one strand of late Han 'Confucian' thought, and a critique of the concepts of subjectivity and the 'birth of lyricism' in China.

• Reihe: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• ISBN: 9780847687381
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.12.1998
• Größe: 236 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc