Writing and authority in early China

著者

• Lewis, Mark Edward

書誌事項

Writing and authority in early China

Mark Edward Lewis

（SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture）

State University of New York Press, c1999

• : pbk. : alk. paper

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the foundation of imperial authority. Its central theme is the emergence of this body of writings as the textual double of the state, and of the text-based sage as the double of the ruler. The book examines the full range of writings employed in early China, such as divinatory records, written communications with ancestors, government documents, the collective writings of philosophical and textual traditions, speeches attributed to historical figures, chronicles, verse anthologies, commentaries, and encyclopedic compendia. Lewis shows how these writings served to administer populations, control officials, form new social groups, invent new models of authority, and create an artificial language whose mastery generated power and whose graphs became potent objects. Writing and Authority in Early China traces the enterprise of creating a parallel reality within texts that depicted the entire world. These texts provided models for the invention of a world empire, and one version ultimately became the first state canon of imperial China. This canon served to perpetuate the dream and the reality of the imperial system across the centuries.

目次

Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION Powers of Writing Writing and the Formation of the Chinese Empire 1. WRITING THE STATE The Archaic Background Laws and Registers Reports, Tallies, and Seals Writing and the King The Offices of Zhou Conclusion 2. WRITING THE MASTERS Scholarly Texts Scholarly Traditions and the State Social and Economic Bases of the Traditions The Master as Model Conclusion 3. WRITING THE PAST The Past in Speeches The Past in Political Philosophy The Past in Cosmogony The Past in Chronicle Conclusion 4. WRITING THE SELF Composing the Odes Speaking through the Odes The Odes as Proof and Sanction Anthology and Authorship Conclusion 5. THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF WRITING The Mythology of Fu Xi The Mythology of the Duke of Zhou The Mythology of Confucius Conclusion 6. THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OF WRITING Between Divination and Philosophy The Natural Philosophy of Signs Images and Writing Numbers and Writing Conclusion 7. THE ENCYCLOPEDIC EPOCH Totality and Truth Canon and Commentary State-Sponsored Compendia Sima Qian and Universal History Sima Xiangru and Universal Poetry The Liu Family and the Universal Library Conclusion 8. THE EMPIRE OF WRITING Establishment of the Canon Triumph of the Canon Conclusion Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA44755424
• ISBN:
  • 079144113X
  • 0791441148
• LCCN: 98043852
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Albany
• ページ数/冊数: vii, 544 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PL2280
  • DC21 : 895.1/09001
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Chinese literature -- To 221 B.C. -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
  • LCSH : Chinese literature -- Political aspects
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA07500628