TY - BOOK ID - 33274336 TI - Authorship and Text-making in Early China AU - Zhang, Hanmo AU - Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology PY - 2018 SN - 1501505130 1501514350 PB - De Gruyter DB - UniCat KW - Chinese literature KW - Authorship KW - Transmission of texts KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Literary transmission KW - Manuscript transmission KW - Textual transmission KW - Criticism, Textual KW - Editions KW - Manuscripts KW - Authoring (Authorship) KW - Writing (Authorship) KW - Literature KW - Autorschaft. KW - Chinesische Texte. KW - Confucius. KW - Liu An. KW - Methodik. KW - Sima Qian. KW - Sinologie. KW - Yellow Emperor. KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Authorship. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33274336 AB - 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 ER -