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Rewriting Early Chinese Texts

Rewriting Early Chinese Texts Book Reviews / T’oung Pao 93 (2007) 480-558 499 Rewriting Early Chinese Texts . By Edward L. Shaughnessy, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2006. vii + 287 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN 0-7914-6643- 4 (hb). Among the most exciting archaeological finds from the past half-century in China are the manuscript texts excavated from some Warring States- and Han- period tombs. Brush-written with ink on bamboo or wooden strips or on pieces of silk cloth, some of these texts correspond to bodies of writings transmitted over the centuries, while many others do not. eir discovery has tremendously enriched our knowledge of the intellectual atmosphere of the time when they were buried, necessitating a thorough rethinking of conventional historical accounts. e present book intends to prepare the ground for such a revision by laying out the methodology for the editing of the newly discovered texts and by pointing out what they can tell us about how the much-studied classical texts transmitted from antiquity may have been changed over the centuries. What sets this book apart from the voluminous recent scholarly literature on related subjects is that Shaughnessy attempts to apply his findings from the study of the newly discovered http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png T'oung Pao Brill

Rewriting Early Chinese Texts

von Falkenhausen, Lothar
T'oung Pao , Volume 93 (4): 499 – Jan 1, 2007
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© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0082-5433
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10.1163/008254307X211151
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Book Reviews / T’oung Pao 93 (2007) 480-558 499 Rewriting Early Chinese Texts . By Edward L. Shaughnessy, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2006. vii + 287 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN 0-7914-6643- 4 (hb). Among the most exciting archaeological finds from the past half-century in China are the manuscript texts excavated from some Warring States- and Han- period tombs. Brush-written with ink on bamboo or wooden strips or on pieces of silk cloth, some of these texts correspond to bodies of writings transmitted over the centuries, while many others do not. eir discovery has tremendously enriched our knowledge of the intellectual atmosphere of the time when they were buried, necessitating a thorough rethinking of conventional historical accounts. e present book intends to prepare the ground for such a revision by laying out the methodology for the editing of the newly discovered texts and by pointing out what they can tell us about how the much-studied classical texts transmitted from antiquity may have been changed over the centuries. What sets this book apart from the voluminous recent scholarly literature on related subjects is that Shaughnessy attempts to apply his findings from the study of the newly discovered

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