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Types of Titles and Their Functionality in Early Chinese Textual Culture /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Types of Titles and Their Functionality in Early Chinese Textual Culture // Kun You.
Author:	You, Kun,
Description:	1 electronic resource (244 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-11A.
Subject:	Asian literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31234591
ISBN:	9798382719788

Types of Titles and Their Functionality in Early Chinese Textual Culture /
You, Kun,

Types of Titles and Their Functionality in Early Chinese Textual Culture /Kun You. - 1 electronic resource (244 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.

The notions of individual authorship and "philosophical schools" have been widely recognized as inadequate and even misleading for understanding early Chinese literature, in particular the Masters Texts, which are often consulted for their philosophical and political value. This realization and the evidence of recently excavated manuscripts, which largely lack paratextual information, suggest that a new methodology for reading early Chinese texts is required. This dissertation addresses the issue that the very different types of relationship between titles and their texts in early Chinese literature have not yet been sufficiently appreciated: it describes how titles became a convention in book compilation and how they evolved to function as a paratextual device. Understanding this process is key to accurately interpreting early Chinese texts. Due to the lack of early compilers' and authors' explanation of the purpose of titles, I use systematic criteria for determining the interpretive function of titles. These criteria include factors such as type of text, textual structures, the relationship between title wording and text, material features of excavated manuscripts, as well as any other accompanying information. The first part of the dissertation (chapters one and two) provides a typology of titles based on their functionality, and the second part (chapters three and four) describes the evolving paratextual function of the title in early Chinese textual culture and book history from the mid-5th century BCE to the 1st century CE (i.e., Warring States period to early Eastern Han dynasty). I propose that, in early China, the maturation of the title's interpretative function arrived hand in hand with the growing importance of writing as a means of distributing knowledge beyond closed social circles. This dissertation provides students of early China with a methodological framework needed to understand the role of titles for identifying individual texts (i.e., chapters of transmitted books) or guiding readers in their interpretation, as well as the function of titles in the evolving concept of books as meaningful compilations of texts.

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