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"This book presents the first systematic investigation on the four types of authorship in the early history of Chinese text making. It enlightens readers with a careful analysis of the emergence and development of the concept of authorship, hand in hand with text formation in early China, and offers an innovative methodology for all those who are interested in rereading and reappraising early Chinese texts"--Back cover.

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This book is a timely response to a rather urgent call to seek an updated methodology in rereading and reappraising early Chinese texts in light of newly discovered early writings. For a long time, the concept of authorship in the formation and transmission of early Chinese texts has been misunderstood. The nominal author who should mainly function as a guide to text formation and interpretation is considered retrospectively as the originator and writer of the text. This book illustrates that although some notions about the text as the author's property began to appear in some Eastern Han texts, a strict correlation between the author and the text results from later conceptions of literary history. Before the modern era, there existed a conceptual gap between an author and a writer. A pre-modern Chinese text could have had both an author and a writer, or even multiple authors and multiple writers. This work is the first study addressing these issues by more systematically emphasizing the connection of the text, the author, and the religious and sociopolitical settings in which these issues were embedded. It is expected to constitute a palpable contribution to Chinese studies and the discipline of philology in general

Chinese literature --- Authorship --- Transmission of texts --- History and criticism. --- History --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Textual transmission --- Criticism, Textual --- Editions --- Manuscripts --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Autorschaft. --- Chinesische Texte. --- Confucius. --- Liu An. --- Methodik. --- Sima Qian. --- Sinologie. --- Yellow Emperor. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Authorship.