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Warring States Papers Volume 1
E Bruce Brooks
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Description for Warring States Papers Volume 1
Paperback. Articles on major classical Chinese texts Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 544.
Warring States Papers seeks to apply standard philological methods to major unsolved textual problems: (a) to establish the nature and interrelations of the texts, including the recognition of interpolations and of text growth generally; (b) to date the texts or their constituent layers; and finally (c) to read the history of the period from that newly available source material. In both fields, with their core of culturally protected texts, these fundamental preliminaries have tended to be overlooked. The Project's revolution, in both its fields of concern, has consisted in large part of not overlooking them. Once the basic questions have ... Read more
Warring States Papers seeks to apply standard philological methods to major unsolved textual problems: (a) to establish the nature and interrelations of the texts, including the recognition of interpolations and of text growth generally; (b) to date the texts or their constituent layers; and finally (c) to read the history of the period from that newly available source material. In both fields, with their core of culturally protected texts, these fundamental preliminaries have tended to be overlooked. The Project's revolution, in both its fields of concern, has consisted in large part of not overlooking them. Once the basic questions have ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Warring States Project United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781936166015
SKU
V9781936166015
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