The empire of the text : writing and authority in early imperial China

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Abbreviations = ⅶ
• Preface = ⅸ
• Acknowledgments = xi
• Names and Chronology = xiii
• Introduction = 1
• Chapter One : Textual Authority and Textual Practice = 21
• Texts, Textual Authority, Literacy, Ideology = 21
• The Origin of Writing = 33
• Writing, Word, Lexicon = 37
• Literacy, Canonicity, Transmission, and Text-systems = 40
• Texts in Their Place : Han Bibliography = 53
• Textuality Takes Command = 59
• Written on Bamboo, Silk, Wood, Stone, and Paper : The Materiality of the Text = 63
• Reading and Writing = 71
• Chapter Two : The Shi = 79
• Who Were the Shi? = 79
• A Brief Sicial History of the Latter Han Shi = 81
• Regional or Imperial? = 84
• The Affair of the Proscribed Factions (danggu), 167-184 C.E = 86
• The Shi and Dynastic Collapse = 92
• Lifestyle, Exemplary Life, Textualized Life = 95
• Re-theorizing the Shi : Sociotextual Formation = 98
• Theorizing the Relationship between the Shi and the State = 103
• Chapter Three : Social Texts = 111
• The Specter of Asociality = 111
• Work, Family, State, and Homosociality = 114
• Late Han Philosophical Writing on Homosocial Relationships = 118
• Evaluation and Recommendation = 128
• Reading the Person = 132
• Chapter Four : Literature = 141
• What Is Chinese Literature? = 141
• Late Han Poetry and the Subjectivity Question = 146
• Orality = 153
• Social Poetic Practice = 157
• Intertextual Composition = 165
• In Conclusion : A Humanist Fantasy = 169
• Appendix : Group Composition of Fu = 173
• Glossary of Select Chinese Terms and Phrases = 177
• Bibliography = 187
• Index = 205
• About the Author = 209