China's Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the DAO in the Eighteenth Century
(Part of the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Series)
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In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts and meanings and with the centrality of facts and truth to their scholarship and identity. With the power to construct the textual past, philology has the potential to shape both individual and collective identities, and...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231183828
ISBN13:9780231183826
Release Date:April 2018
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:328 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.4"
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