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Texts and Transformations: Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Victor H. Mair

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ISBN13
9781604979565
זמן אספקה
21 ימי עסקים
עמודים
486
פורמט
Paperback / softback
תאריך יציאה לאור
26 במרץ 2018
שם סדרה
Cambria Sinophone World
This book interrogates moments in the long history of East Asian writing at which turning points in the lives of texts become perceptible and assesses the transforming effect of stories, customs, and "outside" ideas on Chinese civilization over a nearly 2000-year period.
Texts ineluctably transform. They undergo transformation as they are recopied, displaced, rebound, reshelved, quoted, summarized, translated, canonized, decanonized, and variously appropriated. And they transform the people who read them, the contexts they enter, the catalogues that list them, the institutions that house them, and the cultures that claim them. Their identity over time is perhaps nothing other than the sum of their transformations. The authors in this collection, who are some of the most esteemed scholars of our time, interrogate moments in the long history of East Asian writing at which turning points in the lives of texts become perceptible. Taking Victor Mair's multidisciplinary research as a common thread, they assess the transforming effect of stories, customs, and "outside" ideas on Chinese civilization over a nearly two-thousand-year period.
מידע נוסף
עמודים 486
פורמט Paperback / softback
ISBN10 1604979569
תאריך יציאה לאור 26 במרץ 2018
זמן אספקה 21 ימי עסקים