MODERN CHINESE WRITERS' MANUSCRIPTS OR: WHEN DID AUTHORS START TO KEEP THEIR DRAFTS?

• Authors: Findeisen Raoul D.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper raises the question about the meaning of 'keeping a draft manuscripts' in literary production, taking a famous calligraphy from Tang dynasty (8th cent.) as an early Chinese hand-writing that bears clear marks of intervention in a creative process. Taking four modern manuscripts as samples, it explores the blurred limits between calligraphy and manuscripts, and proposes to merge the millennium-old scholarly tradition of ‘collation' (jiaokan) in with methodological tools.

Keywords

EN

CALLIGRAPHY; DRAFT MANUSCRIPTS; MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE; TANG DYNASTY

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Asian and African Studies
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 265-292
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Findeisen Raoul D.

• Fakultät für Ostasienwissenschaften,Sektion Sprache und Literatur Chinas, Ruhr-Universität Bochum 44780 Bochum, Germany

• Raoul D. Findeisen, Fakultat fur Ostasienwissenschaften, Sektion Sprache und Literatur Chinas, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany

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CEJSH db identifier

10SKAAAA086618