Before Confucius : Studies in the Creation of the Chinese Classics
Edward L Shaughnessy
State University of New York Press
9780791433782
0-7914-3378-1
Edward L. Shaughnessy examines the original composition of China's oldest books, the Classic of Changes, the Venerated Documents, and the Classic of Poetry. By describing the original contexts in which.
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these books were written and what they meant to their original authors and readers, this work sheds light on both the degree to which Chinese culture already was literate by 1000 BC, and also on how the later classical tradition eventually diverged from these origins.
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