Writing And Authority In Early China
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Writing And Authority In Early China
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Author : Mark Edward Lewis
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1999-03-18
Writing And Authority In Early China written by Mark Edward Lewis and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-18 with History categories.
This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the foundation of imperial authority. Its central theme is the emergence of this body of writings as the textual double of the state, and of the text-based sage as the double of the ruler. The book examines the full range of writings employed in early China, such as divinatory records, written communications with ancestors, government documents, the collective writings of philosophical and textual traditions, speeches attributed to historical figures, chronicles, verse anthologies, commentaries, and encyclopedic compendia. Lewis shows how these writings served to administer populations, control officials, form new social groups, invent new models of authority, and create an artificial language whose mastery generated power and whose graphs became potent objects. Writing and Authority in Early China traces the enterprise of creating a parallel reality within texts that depicted the entire world. These texts provided models for the invention of a world empire, and one version ultimately became the first state canon of imperial China. This canon served to perpetuate the dream and the reality of the imperial system across the centuries.
The Empire Of The Text
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Author : Christopher Leigh Connery
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1998
The Empire Of The Text written by Christopher Leigh Connery and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
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.
The Construction Of Space In Early China
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Author : Mark Edward Lewis
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
The Construction Of Space In Early China written by Mark Edward Lewis and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Religion categories.
Shows how the emerging Chinese empire purposely reconceived but was also constrained by basic spatial units such as the body, the household, the region, and the world.
Writing And Literacy In Early China
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Author : Feng Li
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2012-05-01
Writing And Literacy In Early China written by Feng Li and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with History categories.
The emergence and spread of literacy in ancient human society an important topic for all who study the ancient world, and the development of written Chinese is of particular interest, as modern Chinese orthography preserves logographic principles shared by its most ancient forms, making it unique among all present-day writing systems. In the past three decades, the discovery of previously unknown texts dating to the third century BCE and earlier, as well as older versions of known texts, has revolutionized the study of early Chinese writing. The long-term continuity and stability of the Chinese written language allow for this detailed study of the role literacy played in early civilization. The contributors to Writing and Literacy in Early China inquire into modes of manuscript production, the purposes for which texts were produced, and the ways in which they were actually used. By carefully evaluating current evidence and offering groundbreaking new interpretations, the book illuminates the nature of literacy for scribes and readers.
Writing And The Ancient State
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Author : Haicheng Wang
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-12
Writing And The Ancient State written by Haicheng Wang and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-12 with History categories.
Writing and the Ancient State is a comparative study of the use of writing to create and maintain order in early states.
The Flood Myths Of Early China
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Author : Mark Edward Lewis
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
The Flood Myths Of Early China written by Mark Edward Lewis and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Religion categories.
Explores how the flood myths of early China provided a template for that society’s major social and political institutions. Early Chinese ideas about the construction of an ordered human space received narrative form in a set of stories dealing with the rescue of the world and its inhabitants from a universal flood. This book demonstrates how early Chinese stories of the re-creation of the world from a watery chaos provided principles underlying such fundamental units as the state, lineage, the married couple, and even the human body. These myths also supplied a charter for the major political and social institutions of Warring States (481–221 BC) and early imperial (220 BC–AD 220) China. In some versions of the tales, the flood was triggered by rebellion, while other versions linked the taming of the flood with the creation of the institution of a lineage, and still others linked the taming to the process in which the divided principles of the masculine and the feminine were joined in the married couple to produce an ordered household. While availing themselves of earlier stories and of central religious rituals of the period, these myths transformed earlier divinities or animal spirits into rulers or ministers and provided both etiologies and legitimation for the emerging political and social institutions that culminated in the creation of a unitary empire. Mark Edward Lewis is Kwoh-ting Li Professor of Chinese Culture at Stanford University and the author of Writing and Authority in Early China and The Construction of Space in Early China, both published by SUNY Press.
Writing And Authority In Early China
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Author : Mark Edward Lewis
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1999-03-18
Writing And Authority In Early China written by Mark Edward Lewis and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-18 with Literary Collections categories.
This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the foundation of imperial authority. Its central theme is the emergence of this body of writings as the textual double of the state, and of the text-based sage as the double of the ruler. The book examines the full range of writings employed in early China, such as divinatory records, written communications with ancestors, government documents, the collective writings of philosophical and textual traditions, speeches attributed to historical figures, chronicles, verse anthologies, commentaries, and encyclopedic compendia. Lewis shows how these writings served to administer populations, control officials, form new social groups, invent new models of authority, and create an artificial language whose master generated power and whose graphs became potent objects.
Bureaucracy And The State In Early China
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Author : Feng Li
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-12-11
Bureaucracy And The State In Early China written by Feng Li and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-11 with History categories.
This ook redefines the bureaucracy of Ancient Chinese society during the Western Zhou period. The analysis is based on inscriptions of royal edicts from the period carved into bronze vessels. The inscriptions clarify the political and social construction of the Western Zhou and the ways in which it exercised its authority.
Writing Early China
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Author : Edward L. Shaughnessy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-05-02
Writing Early China written by Edward L. Shaughnessy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-02 with History categories.
Considers what unearthed documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China.
Ways With Words
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Author : Pauline Yu
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000-09-19
Ways With Words written by Pauline Yu and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-19 with Education categories.
This is an interdisciplinary collection of articles analyzing seven classic premodern Chinese texts that are provided in translation.