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Literary Information in China - A History (Hardcover)
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Literary Information in China - A History (Hardcover)
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"Information" has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet
it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world
that became central only in the digital age. In this book, leading
experts turn to China's textual tradition to show the significance
of information for reconceptualizing the work of literary history,
from its beginnings to the present moment. Contributors trace the
organization of literary information across China's three millennia
of history, examining the forms and practices of information
management that have evolved alongside the increasing scale and
complexity of textual production. They reimagine literary history
as information processing, detailing the many kinds of storage,
encoding, sorting, and transmission that constitute and feed back
into China's long and ever-growing cultural tradition. The volume
features state-of-the-field essays on all major forms of literary
information management, from graphs to internet literature, and
from commentaries to literary museums and archives. By shifting
focus from individual works and their authors to the informatic
schemata of literature, it identifies three scales of information
management-the word, the document, and the collection-and surveys
the forms that operate at each level, such as the dictionary, the
anthology, and the library. Literary Information in China is a
groundbreaking work that provides a systematic and innovative
reassessment of literary history with implications that extend
beyond the particular Chinese context, revealing how informatic
practices shape literary tradition.
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