The Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China - Christopher Leigh Connery - Books - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - 9780847687381 - December 23, 1998
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During the Chinese Qin-Han period, there arose a regime of textual authority - overlapping but not coinciding with imperial authority. Drawing on research, this work analyzes the early elite culture, particularly in literature and in linguistic, intellectual and institutional history.


224 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released December 23, 1998
ISBN13 9780847687381
Publishers Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pages 224
Dimensions 158 × 235 × 18 mm   ·   449 g

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