TY - BOOK ID - 137090857 TI - Literary Information in China AU - Allen, Sarah M AU - Altehenger, Jennifer AU - Blair, Ann M AU - Brokaw, Cynthia AU - Chen, Jack W AU - Chen, Kaijun AU - Chen, Xi AU - Clifford, Timothy AU - Culp, Robert J AU - Detwyler, Anatoly AU - Egan, Ronald C AU - Feng, Jin AU - Fitzgerald, Devin AU - Forges, Alexander Des AU - Fox, Ariel AU - Franca Sibau, Maria AU - Fuller, Michael A AU - Galambos, Imre AU - Gibbs Hill, Michael AU - Guo, Shaohua AU - Hamm, John Christopher AU - Handel, Zev AU - He, Yuming AU - Heller, Natasha AU - Hon Lam, Ling AU - Huang, Martin W AU - Hunter, Michael AU - Indraccolo, Lisa AU - Judge, Joan AU - Kuzuoğlu, Uluğ AU - Laughlin, Charles A AU - Li, Jianli AU - Li-Min Chun, Tarryn AU - Liu, Xiao AU - Love, Michael AU - Meng, Yue AU - Mullaney, Thomas S AU - Nicoll-Johnson, Evan AU - Nugent, Christopher M B AU - Nugent, Christopher AU - Nylan, Michael AU - Patterson, Gregory AU - Prager Branner, David AU - Raft, Zeb AU - Rojas, Carlos AU - Shields, Anna M AU - Son, Suyoung AU - Sturgeon, Donald AU - Tian, Xiaofei AU - Vankeerberghen, Griet AU - Vedal, Nathan AU - Yang, Jidong AU - Zhong, Yurou AU - Denton, Kirk A AU - Gandolfo, Stefano AU - Huters, Theodore D AU - Meyer, Dirk AU - Rusk, Bruce PY - 2021 SN - 0231551371 9780231551373 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Information resources KW - Information organization KW - Chinese literature KW - History. KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137090857 AB - “Information” has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world that became central only in the digital age. In this book, leading experts turn to China’s textual tradition to show the significance of information for reconceptualizing the work of literary history, from its beginnings to the present moment.Contributors trace the organization of literary information across China’s three millennia of history, examining the forms and practices of information management that have evolved alongside the increasing scale and complexity of textual production. They reimagine literary history as information processing, detailing the many kinds of storage, encoding, sorting, and transmission that constitute and feed back into China’s long and ever-growing cultural tradition. The volume features state-of-the-field essays on all major forms of literary information management, from graphs to internet literature, and from commentaries to literary museums and archives. By shifting focus from individual works and their authors to the informatic schemata of literature, it identifies three scales of information management—the word, the document, and the collection—and surveys the forms that operate at each level, such as the dictionary, the anthology, and the library.Literary Information in China is a groundbreaking work that provides a systematic and innovative reassessment of literary history with implications that extend beyond the particular Chinese context, revealing how informatic practices shape literary tradition. ER -