Martin Kern, "The Sociology of Text in 300 BCE China: Language, Community, Manuscripts"

Martin Kern 

Princeton University, Department of East Asian Studies

The Sociology of Text in 300 BCE China: Language, Community, Manuscripts

Abstract: The lecture will focus on the relationship between the archaeology of literary manuscripts (not documents), their materiality and visuality, and the practices of reading, interpretation, teaching, and performance in the interpretive community at one of the principal Chinese royal courts—the court of Chu—at the time.

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