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Author Zhang, Hanmo, author

Title Authorship and text-making in early China / Hanmo Zhang
Published Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 electronic resource (xii, 363 pages)
Series Library of sinology, 2625-0616 ; volume 2
Library of sinology ; v. 2
Contents Text, author, and the function of authorship -- The author as cultural hero: the Yellow Emperor, the symbolic author -- The author as the head of a teaching lineage: Confucius, the quotable author -- The author as a patron: Prince of Huainan, the owner-author -- The author as an individual writer: Sima Qian, the presented author
Summary "This book presents the first systematic investigation on the four types of authorship in the early history of Chinese text making. It enlightens readers with a careful analysis of the emergence and development of the concept of authorship, hand in hand with text formation in early China, and offers an innovative methodology for all those who are interested in rereading and reappraising early Chinese texts"--Back cover
Analysis Confucius
Liu An
Sima Qian
Yellow Emperor
Notes Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2012
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-345) and index
Notes Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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Subject Authorship -- History -- To 1500
Chinese literature -- To 221 B.C. -- History and criticism
Transmission of texts -- China -- History -- To 1500
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Authorship.
Authorship.
Chinese literature.
Transmission of texts.
China.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020718927
ISBN 9781501505133
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9781501505195
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