Early Chinese Manuscript Collections

Early Chinese Manuscript Collections
Title Early Chinese Manuscript Collections PDF eBook
Author Rens Krijgsman
Publisher BRILL
Pages 232
Release 2023-03-06
Genre History
ISBN 9004540849

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As the first study of manuscript collections, this book asks what changes when sayings, stories, songs, and spells are brought together on the same carrier. Covering a plethora of manuscripts from the Warring States and early empires, and spanning sources from philosophy, historiography, poetry, and technical literature, this study describes the whole life-cycle of multiple texts collected on a single manuscript. Drawing on comparative and interdisciplinary advances and based on careful study of manuscript materiality and textuality, this book shows the importance of collections in the development of and access to text and knowledge in early China.

The Embodied Text

The Embodied Text
Title The Embodied Text PDF eBook
Author Matthias L. Richter
Publisher BRILL
Pages 220
Release 2013-01-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 900424381X

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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.

Chinese Traditional Healing (3 vols)

Chinese Traditional Healing (3 vols)
Title Chinese Traditional Healing (3 vols) PDF eBook
Author Paul Unschuld
Publisher BRILL
Pages 2838
Release 2014-05-09
Genre Medical
ISBN 9004229094

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Research on past knowledge, practices, personnel and institutions of Chinese health care has focussed on printed text for many decades. The Berlin collections of handwritten Chinese volumes on health and healing from the past 400 years provide a hitherto unprecedented access to a wide range of data. They extend the reach of medical historiography beyond the literature written by and for a small social elite to the reality of health care as practiced by private households, lay healers, pharmacists, professional doctors, magicians, itinerant healers and others. The nearly 900 volumes surveyed here for the first time demonstrate the heterogeneity of Chinese traditional healing. They evidence the continuation of millennia-old therapeutic approaches long discarded by the elite, and they show continuous adaptation to more recent trends.

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China
Title Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China PDF eBook
Author Donald John Harper
Publisher Handbook of Oriental Studies.
Pages 517
Release 2017
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9789004310193

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Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China is a comprehensive introduction to the daybook manuscripts found in Warring States, Qin, and Han tombs (453 BCE-220 CE) and intended for use in daily life.

Manuscripts and Archives

Manuscripts and Archives
Title Manuscripts and Archives PDF eBook
Author Alessandro Bausi
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 481
Release 2018-02-19
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 3110541572

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Archives are considered to be collections of administrative, legal, commercial and other records or the actual place where they are located. They have become ubiquitous in the modern world, but emerged not much later than the invention of writing. Following Foucault, who first used the word archive in a metaphorical sense as "the general system of the formation and transformation of statements" in his "Archaeology of Knowledge" (1969), postmodern theorists have tried to exploit the potential of this concept and initiated the "archival turn". In recent years, however, archives have attracted the attention of anthropologists and historians of different denominations regarding them as historical objects and "grounding" them again in real institutions. The papers in this volume explore the complex topic of the archive in a historical, systematic and comparative context and view it in the broader context of manuscript cultures by addressing questions like how, by whom and for which purpose were archival records produced, and if they differ from literary manuscripts regarding materials, formats, and producers (scribes).

The Development of the Chinese Collection in the Library of Congress

The Development of the Chinese Collection in the Library of Congress
Title The Development of the Chinese Collection in the Library of Congress PDF eBook
Author SHU CHAO. HU
Publisher Routledge
Pages 276
Release 2022-06-30
Genre
ISBN 9780367306717

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Shu Chao Hu examines the social, cultural, and political forces that led to the development and growth of the Chinese collection, the acquisitions policies followed, and the sources of personal and financial support found within and outside the Library of Congress.

Early Chinese Medical Literature

Early Chinese Medical Literature
Title Early Chinese Medical Literature PDF eBook
Author Donald Harper
Publisher Routledge
Pages 557
Release 2013-10-28
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1136172378

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First published in 1998. This study uses the Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts to form a basis for information about early Chinese medical literature. Since the 1970S there has been a succession of manuscript discoveries in late-fourth to second century B.C. tombs in several regions of China, the provinces of Hubei and Hunan being particularly fertile ground for manuscripts. The medical Mawangdui manuscripts are part of a large cache of manuscripts discovered in 1973 in Mawangdui tomb 3, situated in the north-eastern part of the city of Changsha, Hunan.