Reading from, Reading into: The Challenge of the Bamboo Odes

Abstract One of the great fascinations of excavated Chinese texts is the promise of recovering the formative stage of works that later became classics: we might then learn what later editors and interpreters have done to them, and rewrite the intellectual history of early China. But little is inevit...

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Published in:Bamboo and silk 2021-01, Vol.4 (1), p.200-213
Main Author: Saussy (蘇源熙), Haun
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Abstract One of the great fascinations of excavated Chinese texts is the promise of recovering the formative stage of works that later became classics: we might then learn what later editors and interpreters have done to them, and rewrite the intellectual history of early China. But little is inevitable in the history of texts. This paper takes a single short poem from the Anhui Shijing manuscript and reads it both with and against the transmitted Mao edition, using it to imagine various scenarios for the "wonderful life" (Gould) of early Chinese literature.
ISSN:2468-9238
2468-9246
DOI:10.1163/24689246-00401008