Speaking about Chinese writing entails thinking about how
writing speaks through various media. In the guises of the written
character and its imprints, traces, or ruins, writing is more than
textuality. The goal of this volume is to consider the relationship
of writing to materiality in China's literary history and to ponder
the physical aspects of the production and circulation of writing.
To speak of the thing-ness of writing is to understand it as a
thing in constant motion, transported from one place or time to
another, one genre or medium to another, one person or public to
another.
Thinking about writing as the material product of a culture
shifts the emphasis from the author as the creator and ultimate
arbiter of a text's meaning to the editors, publishers, collectors,
and readers through whose hands a text is reshaped, disseminated,
and given new meanings. By yoking writing and materiality, the
contributors to this volume aim to bypass the tendency to oppose
form and content, words and things, documents and artifacts, to
rethink key issues in the interpretation of Chinese literary and
visual culture.
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