32.3025, Books: Documentation and Argument in Early China: Meyer

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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 19:03:40
From: Birgit Sievert [Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com]
Subject: Documentation and Argument in Early China: Meyer

 


Title: Documentation and Argument in Early China 
Subtitle: The Shàngshū 尚書 (Venerated Documents) and the Shū Traditions 
Series Title: Library of Sinology  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
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Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110708530/html 


Author: Dirk Meyer

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110708530 Pages: 281 Price: Europe EURO  Comment: Open Access
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110708417 Pages: 281 Price: Europe EURO 49.95


Abstract:

This study uncovers the traditions behind the formative Classic Shàngshū
(Venerated Documents). It is the first to establish these traditions—“Shū”
(Documents)—as a historically evolving practice of thought-production. By
focusing on the literary form of the argument, it interprets the “Shū” as
fluid text material that embodies the ever-changing cultural capital of
projected conceptual communities. By showing how these communities actualised
the “Shū” according to their changing visions of history and evolving group
interests, the study establishes that by the Warring States period (ca.
453–221 BC) the “Shū” had become a literary genre employed by diverse groups
to legitimize their own arguments. Through forms of textual performance, the
“Shū” gave even peripheral communities the means to participate in political
discourse by conferring their ideas with ancient authority. Analysing this
dynamic environment of socio-political and philosophical change, this study
speaks to the Early China field, as well as to those interested in meaning
production and foundational text formation more widely.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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