Thesis
The wholeness of early Chinese texts: Mu Shi 牧誓, Huainanzi 淮南子, and Wu Cheng 武成
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What does it mean for a text to be a whole? How do texts achieve wholeness? And how can one determine when they do so? Questions of wholeness have been at the heart of Chinese text studies since the Western Han 漢 (205 BC–9 AD), when scholars attempted some of the earliest known reconstructions, and constructions, of pre-imperial texts. In the two millennia since, almost all early Chinese texts studied have been evaluated in terms of their wholeness, yet within this scholarship, there are m...
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Authors
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+ Meyer, D
Role:
Supervisor
ORCID:
0000-0002-8626-9929
+ Fuehrer, B
Role:
Examiner
+ Tan, TY
Role:
Examiner
ORCID:
0000-0002-9029-4262
Funding
+ Gordon Aldrick Fund
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Programme:
Gordon Aldrick Scholarship
Funder identifier:
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100014748
Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- English and Chinese
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- Deposit date:
- 2021-01-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Smith, CJ
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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