Authorship and text-making in early China
"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 o...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
De Gruyter Mouton
2018, [2018]©2018
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| Series: | Library of sinology
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of 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
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-345) and index