The Empire of the Text - Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China (Paperback, KDenn)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1998
First published:	December 1998
Authors:	Christopher Leigh Connery
Dimensions:	231 x 151 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
Edition:	KDenn
ISBN-13:	978-0-8476-8739-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
LSN:	0-8476-8739-2
Barcode:	9780847687398

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