The Huainanzi and Textual Production in Early China

The Han dynasty Huainanzi is a compendium of knowledge. This edited volume follows a multi-disciplinary approach to explore how and why the Huainanzi was produced and how we should interpret the work.

About the author

Sarah Queen, Professor, Connecticut College, is the author of From Chronicle to Canon as well as the the co-translator of The Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumnn and The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government.
Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University. He is the co-author, most recently, of Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity, with Robert Weller, Adam Seligman, and Bennet Simon.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.04.2014
• EAN: 9789004265035
• ISBN: 978-90-04-26503-5
• No. of pages: 414
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 780 g
• Series: Studies in the History of Chin
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies