China's Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century by Ori Sela

China's Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Ori Sela

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Ori Sela foregrounds the polymath Qian Daxin (1728–1804), one of the most distinguished scholars of the Qing dynasty, to tell this story. China’s Philological Turn traces scholars’ social networks and the production of knowledge, considering the t...

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