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AUTHORSHIP AND TEXT-MAKING IN EARLY CHINA - HAN...

This book is a timely response to a rather urgent call to seek an updated methodology in
rereading and reappraising early Chinese texts in light of newly discovered early writings. For
a long time  the concept of authorship in the formation and transmission of early Chinese texts
has been misunderstood. The nominal author who should mainly function as a guide to text
formation and interpretation is considered retrospectively as the originator and writer of the
text. This book illustrates that although some notions about the text as the author's property
began to appear in some Eastern Han texts  a strict correlation between the author and the text
results from later conceptions of literary history. Before the modern era  there existed a
conceptual gap between an author and a writer. A pre-modern Chinese text could have had both an
author and a writer  or even multiple authors and multiple writers. This work is the first
study addressing these issues by more systematically emphasizing the connection of the text 
the author  and the religious and sociopolitical settings in which these issues were embedded.
It is expected to constitute a palpable contribution to Chinese studies and the discipline of
philology in general

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