TY - BOOK ID - 3369892 TI - Philosophy on bamboo PY - 2012 VL - 2 SN - 9789004207622 9004207627 9786613326850 128332685X 9004208089 9789004208087 PB - Leiden [The Netherlands] Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Chinese classics KW - Chinese literature KW - Criticism, Textual. KW - S15/0313 KW - S17/0214 KW - S12/0222 KW - China: Language--Inscriptions on bamboo and wood: general KW - China: Art and archaeology--Archaeology China: Pre-Han and Han KW - China: Philosophy and Classics--Chinese philosophy: Ancient KW - Criticism, Textual KW - Philosophy, Chinese KW - Manuscripts, Chinese. KW - Transmission of texts UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3369892 AB - 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. ER -