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 Un

Ori Sela

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In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts and meanings and ...

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