Textual Practices of Literary Training in Medieval China: Evidence from Dunhuang Manuscripts (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004547797)

Through close examination of a set of educational works discovered among the Dunhuang manuscripts, this book presents new insights into the literary training undertaken by the elite of medieval China. In their contents and structures, these works tell us what parts of the literary and cultural inheritance the elite were expected to learn and how they learned them.
The material aspects of these manuscripts--including handwriting, copying errors, and paratextual additions--show how students in Dunhuang used and reproduced them. What emerges is a picture of a literary education that is more diverse in its sources, and also more haphazard, than previously imagined.

Author: Christopher M. B. Nugent
ISBN-10: 9004547797
ISBN-13: 9789004547797
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 10/25/2023
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.81d