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Scholarship on early Chinese thought has long tended to treat texts as mere repositories of ideas rather than as meaningful objects in their own right. Not only does this approach present an idealised account of China’s intellectual past, but it also imposes artificial boundaries between textual and philosophical traditions. As the first study to treat text as a cultural phenomenon during the Warring States period, this book demonstrates the interplay among the material conditions of text and manuscript culture, writing, and thought. Through close readings of philosophical texts excavated at Guōdiàn, it analyses crucial strategies of meaning construction and casts light on the ways in which different communities used texts to philosophical ends. Meyer thus establishes new understandings of the correlation between ideas, their material carrier, and the production of meaning in early China.

Chinese classics --- Chinese literature --- Criticism, Textual. --- S15/0313 --- S17/0214 --- S12/0222 --- China: Language--Inscriptions on bamboo and wood: general --- China: Art and archaeology--Archaeology China: Pre-Han and Han --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Chinese philosophy: Ancient --- Criticism, Textual --- Philosophy, Chinese --- Manuscripts, Chinese. --- Transmission of texts

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The European Monetary Union based on the Maastricht Treaty doesn't exist any longer. Permanent rescue parachutes, joint liability and legal presumptions by the EU Commission lead to a fiscal union with a redistributive character. Bond-purchasingprogrammes endanger the independence of the ECB. As an alternative, Dirk Meyer develops a parallel currency concept for a functioning common currency. The Content Vol. I: An Inventory Where is a liability union already evident today? To what extent is the reconstruction fund NextGenerationEU the blueprint for a fiscal-centralist European Monetary Fund? Is a debt relief on the way? Are Greek "geuros" and Italian "minibots" as government money the solution? Why do national parallel currencies and a value-secured euro with purchasing power guarantee a constructive alternative?

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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.

Political science --- Collective memory and literature. --- Chinese classics. --- Philosophy. --- China.