Written on Bamboo and Silk: The Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions, Second Edition - Hardcover

Tsien, Tsuen-Hsuin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226814181 ISBN 13: 9780226814186

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2004

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Book by Tsien TsuenHsuin

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"For any student of Chinese, Tsien's lucid introduction to the development of the book, to the beginnings of calligraphy and the massive archive of historical writing, characteristic of premodern China, is an essential reference work."--Times Literary Supplement "This admirable monograph covers the whole field of epigraphy and the technique of human communication, including the origins and development of paper and the use of it for writing, down to the time of the invention of printing." "For scholars wishing to understand how a number of now justly separated palaeographic fields have developed over the past half-century, Tsien''s re-editing of a classic work could not be timelier."--Times Higher Education Supplement "For any student of Chinese, Tsien''s lucid introduction to the development of the book, to the beginnings of calligraphy and the massive archive of historical writing, characteristic of premodern China, is an essential reference work."--Times Literary Supplement "Tsien''s study is a triumph of modern sinology. . . . Few, if any, of the purposes, techniques, usages, instruments, and materials of Chinese writing have escaped his attention. The result is a volume which is as definitive as extent research data will permit."--Library Journal "Tsien's study is a triumph of modern sinology. . . . Few, if any, of the purposes, techniques, usages, instruments, and materials of Chinese writing have escaped his attention. The result is a volume which is as definitive as extent research data will permit."--Library Journal

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Paleography, which often overlaps with archaeology, deciphers ancient inscriptions and modes of writing to reveal the knowledge and workings of earlier societies. In this classic paleographic study of China, T. H. Tsien comprehensively traces the development of Chinese writing from the earliest inscriptions to the advent of printing, organizing its history with specific attention to the tools and media used. Written on Bamboo and Silk - the only book of its kind available in English - has long been considered a landmark in its field. Now expanded and completely updated, this edition includes material that treats the many major documents and ancient Chinese artifacts uncovered over the forty years since the book's first publication. Critical in this regard is the excavation of numerous sites in ancient cities throughout China, where hundreds of thousands of documents written on bamboo and silk - as well as other media - were found, including some of the earliest copies of historical, medical, astronomical, military, and religious texts that are now essential to the study of early Chinese literature, history, and philosophy. Discoveries such as these have made the amount of material

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0226814181
• ISBN 13: 9780226814186
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320