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Textual Practices of Literary Training in Medieval China: Evidence from Dunhuang Manuscripts: Studies in the History of Chinese Texts, cartea 16

Autor Christopher M.B. Nugent
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 oct 2023
Through close examination of a set of educational works discovered among the Dunhuang manuscripts, this book presents new insights into the literary training undertaken by the elite of medieval China. In their contents and structures, these works tell us what parts of the literary and cultural inheritance the elite were expected to learn and how they learned them.
The material aspects of these manuscripts—including handwriting, copying errors, and paratextual additions—show how students in Dunhuang used and reproduced them. What emerges is a picture of a literary education that is more diverse in its sources, and also more haphazard, than previously imagined.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004547797
ISBN-10: 9004547797
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Studies in the History of Chinese Texts


Notă biografică

Christopher M. B. Nugent, Ph.D. (2004), Harvard University, is the John W. Chandler Professor of Chinese at Williams College. He has written on the production and circulation of poetry, textual memory, education, and manuscript culture in medieval China.

Recenzii

“An insightful and highly original study, which makes a major contribution to our knowledge of Dunhuang and medieval Chinese literary culture in general. Based on a close analysis of a group of Dunhuang manuscripts, it addresses the difficult question of how literary training happened in daily practice. A refreshing read, both enjoyable and informative.”
Imre GalambosQiushi Professor of Chinese at the School of Literature, Zhejiang University, and Professor Emeritus of Chinese at the University of Cambridge
Textual Practices of Literary Training in Medieval China is a ground-breaking study of the history of manuscript culture, elite education, and the production of knowledge in medieval China. Through close analysis of the literary and codicological features of Dunhuang primers that have been little examined to date, Nugent illuminates the many ways that medieval people learned to read, write, and think with the cultural tradition. It sets a new high-water mark for scholarship on Dunhuang manuscripts and literary knowledge in premodern China.”
Anna M. ShieldsGordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University

Cuprins

Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Tables and Figures
Manuscripts Cited

Introduction
1 The Dunhuang Context
2 Literary Training and the Literate Elite
3 Managing Literary Information
4 Overview of Shapters
5 Some Conventions

1 Kaimeng yaoxun: A Foundation for Literary Training
1 Introduction
2 Documents
3 Content: What Kaimeng yaoxun Teaches
4 Structure: What Makes Kaimeng yaoxun “Easy to Understand and Hard to Forget”?
5 Using Kaimeng yaoxun: Evidence from Textual Variation
6 Case Study: P.2578
7 Managing Information: Kaimeng yaoxun as Literary Training

2 Qianzi wen as Mnemonic Scaffold
1 Introduction to Qianzi wen
2 Qianzi wen
3 Medieval Annotations to Qianzi wen
4 Liuzi qianwen

3 Yudui: Parallel Sayings as Tool and Method
1 Introduction
2 Documents and Formats
3 Structure and Content
4 Variation, Production, and Use
5 Yudui as Information Management

4 Zachao: A Complex Miscellany
1 Introduction
2 The Documents
3 Organizational Structure
4 Categories of Content
5 Managing Information
6 Textual Variation
7 Layout, Format, and Use
8 Parallels

5 Tuyuan cefu: A Primer for Exams and Officialdom
1 Introduction
2 The Bibliographic Record
3 Dunhuang Documents
4 Du Sixian’s Preface
5 Content and Structure: “Deliberating the Feng and Shan Sacrifices”
6 Using Tuyuan cefu
7 Tuyuan cefu In (and Out) of Context

Conclusion
1 Implications
Bibliography
Index