Literary Information in China: A History

Published by Columbia University Press 2020

Literary Information in China

A History

Edited by: Bruce Rusk , Anatoly Detwyler , Christopher Nugent , Xiao Liu and Jack W. Chen

https://doi.org/10.7312/chen19552

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About this book

“Information” has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world or the digital age. Leading experts turn to China’s textual tradition to show the significance of information for reconceptualizing the work of literary history, from its beginnings to the present moment.

Author / Editor information

Jack W. Chen is associate professor of Chinese literature at the University of Virginia.

Anatoly Detwyler is assistant professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Christopher M. B. Nugent is professor of Chinese at Williams College.

Xiao Liu is assistant professor of East Asian studies at McGill University.

Bruce Rusk is associate professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia.

Reviews

Ning Ma, author of The Age of Silver: The Rise of the Novel East and West:
Literary Information in China breaks new ground in Chinese studies. This book is bound to generate new dialogues between Chinese cultural history and linguistics, library science, museum studies, digital humanities, and big data. The collection will become an indispensable reference for scholars of Chinese studies.

Elaine Treharne, author of Text Technologies: A History:
This extensive collection of first-rate essays is an impressive exploration of the history, range, and significance of Chinese literary production. From the beginnings of the complex Chinese writing system to contemporary methods and forms of textual composition and preservation, contributors present a scholarly tour de force: unmissable reading for anyone interested in one of the world’s most important textual traditions.

Eric Hayot, author of Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan:
This is a wonderful and magisterial effort of editing, writing, and thinking—astonishing in the breadth of its coverage and in the depth of its scholarship. Together these essays provide an enormous step forward in our understanding of the ways information, literature, and culture work together to create the landscape of our communicative lives.

Lydia H. Liu, author of The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious:
This impressive volume provides a comprehensive and wonderfully detailed account of the mechanisms of textual organization, replication, proliferation, and dissemination from ancient China to the age of the internet. From the zi and graphs to the making of anthologies, encyclopedias, archives, histories, and so on, the authors collectively bring the enduring infrastructure of the literary (wen) to light.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
A NOTE TO READERS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
CHRONOLOGY Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
FOREWORD Ann M. Blair Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
INTRODUCTION For a History of Literary Information in China Jack W. Chen, Anatoly Detwyler, Xiao Liu, Christopher M. B. Nugent and Bruce Rusk Publicly Available Download PDF	xxi
PART I INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AT THE LEVEL OF THE WORD
SECTION A GRAPHS
CHAPTER 1 GRAPHS Zev Handel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
CHAPTER 2 SCRIPT REFORM AND ALPHABETIZATION Yurou Zhong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
CHAPTER 3 INDEXING SYSTEMS Uluğ Kuzuoğlu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
CHAPTER 4 CHARACTER INPUT Thomas S Mullaney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
SECTION B LEXICONS
CHAPTER 5 EARLY LEXICONS Zev Handel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
CHAPTER 6 RIME TABLES David Prager Branner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
CHAPTER 7 LATER IMPERIAL LEXICONS Nathan Vedal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
CHAPTER 8 EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY DICTIONARIES Yue Meng and Xi Chen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
CHAPTER 9 POST-1949 DICTIONARIES Jennifer Altehenger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
CHAPTER 10 APP-BASED AND ONLINE DICTIONARIES Michael Love Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
SECTION C TEXT AND TEXTUAL DIVISIONS
CHAPTER 11 SENTENCES, PARAGRAPHS, AND SECTIONS Dirk Meyer and Lisa Indraccolo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
CHAPTER 12 LINES, COUPLETS, AND STANZAS Jack W. Chen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
CHAPTER 13 PREMODERN PUNCTUATION AND LAYOUT Imre Galambos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
CHAPTER 14 MODERN PUNCTUATION AND LAYOUT John Christopher Hamm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
SECTION D COMMENTARIES
CHAPTER 15 EARLY TO MIDDLE PERIOD CLASSICAL COMMENTARIES Michael Nylan and Bruce Rusk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
CHAPTER 16 POETRY COMMENTARIES Michael A. Fuller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
CHAPTER 17 FICTION COMMENTARIES Martin W. Huang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
CHAPTER 18 DRAMA COMMENTARIES Yuming He Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
CHAPTER 19 READER’S GUIDES Maria Franca Sibau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
PART II INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AT THE LEVEL OF THE DOCUMENT
SECTION A ANTHOLOGIES
CHAPTER 20 EARLY ANTHOLOGIES Michael Hunter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
CHAPTER 21 MEDIEVAL LITERARY ANTHOLOGIES Xiaofei Tian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
CHAPTER 22 LATER IMPERIAL POETRY ANTHOLOGIES Gregory Patterson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
CHAPTER 23 LATER IMPERIAL PROSE ANTHOLOGIES Timothy Clifford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
CHAPTER 24 RELIGIOUS LITERARY ANTHOLOGIES Natasha Heller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
CHAPTER 25 PREMODERN FICTION AND FICTION COLLECTIONS Ling Hon Lam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
CHAPTER 26 PREMODERN DRAMA ANTHOLOGIES Ariel Fox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
CHAPTER 27 MODERN LITERARY ANTHOLOGIES Charles A Laughlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
CHAPTER 28 MODERN DRAMA SCRIPT ANTHOLOGIES Tarryn Li-Min Chun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
CHAPTER 29 TEXTBOOK ANTHOLOGIES Michael Gibbs Hill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
SECTION B ENCYCLOPEDIAS
CHAPTER 30 MEDIEVAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS Christopher M. B. Nugent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
CHAPTER 31 MIDDLE PERIOD IMPERIAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS Sarah M. Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
CHAPTER 32 LATER IMPERIAL VERNACULAR ENCYCLOPEDIAS Cynthia Brokaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
CHAPTER 33 QING DYNASTY IMPERIAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS Stefano Gandolfo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
CHAPTER 34 TWENTIETH-CENTURY VERNACULAR ENCYCLOPEDIAS Joan Judge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	334
CHAPTER 35 ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND WIKIS Shaohua Guo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	340
SECTION C HISTORIES
CHAPTER 36 EARLY HISTORIES Griet Vankeerberghen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
CHAPTER 37 EARLY MEDIEVAL HISTORIES Zeb Raft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
CHAPTER 38 DYNASTIC HISTORIES FROM TANG TO SONG Anna M. Shields Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
CHAPTER 39 LATE IMPERIAL HISTORIES Devin Fitzgerald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	384
CHAPTER 40 LITERARY HISTORIES Theodore D. Huters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
PART III INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AT THE LEVEL OF THE COLLECTION
SECTION A LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS, AND ARCHIVES
CHAPTER 41 LIBRARIES FROM THE EARLY PERIOD TO THE TANG Michael Nylan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
CHAPTER 42 LIBRARIES FROM SONG TO QING Ronald C Egan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
CHAPTER 43 LATE IMPERIAL LITERARY ARCHIVES Kaijun Chen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	430
CHAPTER 44 MODERN LIBRARIES Jidong Yang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
CHAPTER 45 MODERN LITERATURE MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES Kirk A. Denton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
CHAPTER 46 DOCUMENT SERVICES Xiao Liu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	456
CHAPTER 47 THEMATIC RESEARCH COLLECTIONS Donald Sturgeon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
SECTION B BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDICES
CHAPTER 48 EARLY BIBLIOGRAPHIES Michael Nylan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	475
CHAPTER 49 MEDIEVAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES Evan Nicoll-Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
CHAPTER 50 LATER IMPERIAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES Stefano Gandolfo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	491
CHAPTER 51 TWENTIETH-CENTURY BIBLIOGRAPHIES Anatoly Detwyler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	500
CHAPTER 52 INDICES AND CONCORDANCES Donald Sturgeon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	509
SECTION C SERIAL PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTER 53 PREMODERN LITERARY COLLECTANEA Suyoung Son Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	519
CHAPTER 54 MODERN LITERARY COLLECTANEA Robert J. Culp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	533
CHAPTER 55 LITERARY NEWSPAPERS AND TABLOIDS Alexander Des Forges Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	541
CHAPTER 56 LITERARY JOURNALS Jianli Li Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	548
CHAPTER 57 OVERSEAS CHINESE NEWSPAPERS Carlos Rojas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	561
CHAPTER 58 INTERNET LITERATURE Jin Feng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	569
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	577
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	611
INDEX OF PEOPLE AND SELECT INSTITUTIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	615
INDEX OF DOCUMENTS, PUBLICATIONS, AND ELECTRONIC RESOURCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	625

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
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Published: May 11, 2021
ISBN: 9780231551373