TY - BOOK ID - 78075125 TI - Transmitting Authority PY - 2014 SN - 9004276335 9789004276338 1306858259 9781306858250 9789004273214 9004273212 PB - Leiden BRILL DB - UniCat KW - Wang, Tong, KW - Ō, Tsū, KW - 王通, KW - Wang, Tʻung, KW - Wenzhong, KW - Wenzhongzi, KW - 文中子, KW - Wang, Zhongyan, KW - 王仲淹, KW - Criticism, Textual. KW - S12/0420 KW - S12/0228 KW - S12/0230 KW - China: Philosophy and Classics--Other Confucian writers before Zhu Xi (1130-1200) KW - China: Philosophy and Classics--Chinese philosophy: Period of Disunity KW - China: Philosophy and Classics--Chinese philosophy: Sui and Tang UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78075125 AB - Transmitting Authority investigates the rise and fall of the cultural currency of the Confucian teacher Wang Tong (ca. 584–617), a.k.a. Master Wenzhong, in the five centuries following his death, by examining the textual and social history of the Zhongshuo , which purports to record Wang Tong’s teachings. Incorporating theories and methodologies from textual criticism, the history of the book, and cultural studies, Warner reveals evidence of the Zhongshuo ’s textual fluidity during the Tang and early Song dynasties, and argues that this fluidity attended the shifting terms of the Zhongshuo ’s cultural value for medieval China’s literati culture. In doing so, Warner offers scholars a model for the study of other works whose textual problems and historical significance have hitherto seemed inscrutable. ER -