China's Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the DAO in the Eighteenth Century

by Ori Sela

In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts and meanings and with the centrality of facts and truth to their scholarship and identity. With the power to construct the textual past, philology has the potential to shape both individual and collective identities, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231183828
• ISBN13: 9780231183826
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.4"