Literate Community in Early Imperial China

"In Literate Community in Early Imperial China, Charles Sanft looks at interactions with text during the Han period and argues that they were more widespread than has been recognized. Archaeologists have excavated a tremendous number of written materials left behind at military installations in the northwestern border regions of China, and scholars have often studied these documents for what they tell us about institutions. But their cultural aspects have received far less attention. Sanft brings an innovative interdisciplinary analytic framework to the study of these documents. He offers a new way to distinguish between reading and writing, which allows for an improved understanding of how text worked in early China, and concentrates on the community rather than the individual. In doing so, he is able to show that a much broader section of early society had meaningful interactions with text. This is a major shift from previous understandings, and makes Literate Community an important contribution to early China studies, the study of literacy, and the global history of non-elites"--

שנה

2019

שפה

English

הוצאה

State University of New York Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

252

ISBN

9781438475134

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata