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Waring, Luke

 
9780231219563: Writing and Materiality in Ancient China: The Textual Culture of the Mawangdui Tombs
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ISBN 10 : 0231219563 ISBN 13 : 9780231219563
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Excavations at the famous Mawangdui tomb site in south-central China (early to mid-second century BCE) have unearthed many kinds of writing, including documents made of silk, wood, and bamboo as well as a wide range of inscribed artifacts. This book is an interdisciplinary study of these varied forms of writing, exploring the different roles that texts played in the lives and afterlives of Chinese elites during the Han dynasty.

Examining documents and artifacts from the Mawangdui tombs in comparative perspective, Luke Waring demonstrates that early Chinese writing should be understood as part of the material and visual cultures of its time. Written texts were used to do more than simply preserve and transmit important information: they were also work tasks, storage items, performance aids, apotropaic talismans, aesthetically pleasing patterns, display pieces, possessions, and burial objects. Writing was even integrated into older, perhaps more powerful modes of cultural expression such as ritual performance and material display. Waring argues that manuscripts and inscribed objects were always things, artifacts that had powerful effects on the world that created them. Comprehensively researched and lavishly illustrated, Writing and Materiality in Ancient China offers a new understanding of the textual cultures of the early Western Han.

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À propos de l'auteur

Luke Waring is an assistant professor of Asian studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Éditeur
Columbia University Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0231219563
ISBN 13 
9780231219563
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
360
Coordonnées du fabricant
Columbia University Press
https://cup.columbia.edu/

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