EMPIRE OF THE TEXT: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China

by Connery, Christopher Leigh

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Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998. xiv, 209 pp. Notes, appendix, glossary, bibliography, indexThis unique study argues that in the Qin-Han period, there arose in China a regime of textual authority-one that overlapped but did not coincide with imperial authority. Drawing on a wide range of research and theory, the author makes an original contribution to the analysis of early imperial elite culture, particularly in the fields of literature and linguistics, intellectual, and institutional history. The author provides new contexts for thinking about canonization and textual transmission systems, an innovative framework for analysis and discussion of the early imperial elite, a socio-ideological exploration of one strand of late Han "Confucian" thought, and a critique of the concepts of subjectivity and the "birth of lyricism" in China.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/No Jacket (as issued). 24 x 16 cm.

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