Author : Christopher M.B. Nugent
Release : 2023-10-20
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 883/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Textual Practices of Literary Training in Medieval China by : Christopher M.B. Nugent
Download or read book Textual Practices of Literary Training in Medieval China written by Christopher M.B. Nugent. This book was released on 2023-10-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close examination of a set of educational works discovered among the Dunhuang manuscripts, this book presents new insights into the literary training undertaken by the elite of medieval China. In their contents and structures, these works tell us what parts of the literary and cultural inheritance the elite were expected to learn and how they learned them. The material aspects of these manuscripts—including handwriting, copying errors, and paratextual additions—show how students in Dunhuang used and reproduced them. What emerges is a picture of a literary education that is more diverse in its sources, and also more haphazard, than previously imagined.
