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Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture
Xiaofei Tian
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Description for Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture
Paperback. Looks at how changes made when medieval Chinese manuscripts were copied influenced a writer's literary reputation Series: China Program Books. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 477.
Winner of a 2006 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Award
As medieval Chinese manuscripts were copied and recopied through the centuries, both mistakes and deliberate editorial changes were introduced, thereby affecting readers' impressions of the author's intent. In Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture, Xiaofei Tian shows how readers not only experience authors but produce them by shaping texts to their interpretation. Tian examines the mechanics and history of textual transmission in China by focusing on the evolution over the centuries of the reclusive poet Tao Yuanming into a figure of epic stature.
Considered emblematic of the national character, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
China Program Books
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295991344
SKU
V9780295991344
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About Xiaofei Tian
Xiaofei Tian is professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University.
Reviews for Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture
"At once a study of manuscript culture's fluid nature and an excavation of forgotten dimensions of the poet through a study of the variant words and phrases that were not adopted in the standard readings..Tian's sensitive weighing of the alternatives is persuasive— and who would not be drawn to the irony, humor, and struggle of the more complex Tao that ... Read more