The Embodied Text - Establishing Textual Identity in Early Chinese Manuscripts

In The Embodied Text Matthias L. Richter demonstrates how early Chinese manuscript texts can reliably be established on the basis of their material representation rather than on grounds of similarities with other texts.

About the author

Matthias L. Richter, Ph.D. (2000) Hamburg University, is Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has published books and articles on early Chinese literature, textual criticism, and manuscript studies, including Guan Ren (Bern, 2005).

Product details

• Authors: Matthias L Richter, Matthias L. Richter
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2013
• EAN: 9789004236578
• ISBN: 978-90-04-23657-8
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 244 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 478 g
• Series: Studies in the History of Chin
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies