In more than one sense, Mark Edward Lewis) Writing and Authority in Early China is a
monument of scholarship. First of all, its 544 pages constitute the most comprehensive …

This is a short polemical essay that repeatedly calls itself not a study but “an analytical
experiment.” The book has not only a thesis—namely that the social practice of writing is at …

Writing and the Ancient State explores the early development of writing and its relationship
to the growth of political structures. The first part of the book focuses on the contribution of …

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 canon as the foundation …

This dissertation is a comparative study of the uses of writing in the early state. To obtain a
fresh perspective on the evidence for early writing from China, it looks at how the ideological …

This work addresses the development of four models of authorship in relation to the
formation of early Chinese texts to facilitate the understanding of the nature of this textual …

Writing and the Ancient State explores the early development of writing and its relationship
to the growth of political structures. The first part of the book focuses on the contribution of …

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 …

David N. Keightley s seminal essays on the origins of Chinese society are brought together
in one volume. These Bones Shall Rise Again brings together in one volume many of David …

2. Robert Culp, Articulating Citizenship: Civic Education and Student Politics in
Southeastern China, 1912–1940 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007) …