The present essay combines the theory of Cultural Memory with ideas about textual
repertoires, composite text, and distributed authorship that in recent years have been …

The material features of the Shanghai Museum* Yong yue 用曰and Zhangjiashan Yinshu
引書manuscripts structure their texts in ways different from each other, inviting questions on …

This study uncovers the traditions behind the formative Classic Shàngshū (Venerated
Documents). It reveals a genre of “Shū”(Documents) practice that was used creatively by …

Challenges the idea held by many prominent twentieth-century Sinologists that early China
experienced a language crisis. Jane Geaney argues that early Chinese conceptions of …

This article examines the attitudes of Warring States textual witnesses to the increase in
presence of and reliance on bamboo manuscripts in communicating knowledge. Based on a …

摘要本文系統闡述了副文本的功能和特征, 以用來識別手抄本文獻中的副文本元素. 以《
湯在啻門》 和《 湯處於湯丘》 為例, 本文表明“說” 或者“軼事” 類文體的敘事框架可以發揮類似於 …

This article analyses the two main rhetorical techniques of “argumentation”(biàn) and
“persuasion”(shuì) employed in politico-philosophical debates recorded in early Chinese …

The daybook manuscripts are miscellanies in that they gather together a range of different
forms of text onto a single manuscript carrier. This article focuses on passages of rhymed …

Scott Cook's two-volume The Bamboo Texts of Guodian is a major contribution to the study
of Early China, and is unique in its scope and genre. Considered as a work of scholarship …

“Great Digest”(da lüe 大略) is the title of a chapter of the received Xunzi 荀子corpus, a
collection of writings associated with and named after an influential Confucian philosopher …