This book is a timely response to a rather urgent call to seek an updated methodology in rereading and reappraising early Chinese texts in light of newly discov

The book presents the first systematic investigation of the four types of authorship which were attributed in the early history of Chinese text making. Zhang en

This book is a timely response to a rather urgent call to seek an updated methodology in rereading and reappraising early Chinese texts in light of newly discov

This is an interdisciplinary collection of articles analyzing seven classic premodern Chinese texts that are provided in translation.

This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual can