Embodied Text
Subtitle: Establishing Textual Identity in Early Chinese Manuscripts
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9789004243811
Subjects: Chinese literature, history and criticism
Description: "In The Embodied Text Matthias L. Richter offers an exemplary study of a 300 BCE Chinese manuscript, exploring significant differences between the Warring States manuscript text and its transmitted early imperial counterparts. These differences reveal the adaptation of the text to a changed political environment as well as general ideological developments. This study further demonstrates how the physical embodiment of the text in the manuscript reflects modes of textual formation and social uses of written texts." -- Publisher's description.