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Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Victor H. Mair
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Description

Texts ineluctably transform. They undergo transformation as they are recopied, displaced, rebound, reshelved, quoted, summarized, translated, canonized, decanonized, and variously appropriated. And they transform the people who read them, the contexts they enter, the catalogues that list them, the institutions that house them, and the cultures that claim them. Their identity over time is perhaps nothing other than the sum of their transformations. The authors in this collection, who are some of the most esteemed scholars of our time, interrogate moments in the long history of East Asian writing at which turning points in the lives of texts become perceptible. Taking Victor Mair's multidisciplinary research as a common thread, they assess the transforming effect of stories, customs, and "outside" ideas on Chinese civilization over a nearly two-thousand-year period.

Author Biography:

Haun Saussy is University Professor at the University of Chicago. He holds an MPhil and a PhD from Yale University and a BA from Duke University. His books include The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic, Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China, The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and its Technologies, Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out, and as editor or coeditor, Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization, Sinographies: Writing China, Fenollosa/Pound, The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition, Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader, and A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep Hidden: Selected Writings of Li Zhi.
Release date NZ
March 26th, 2018
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributor
  • Edited by Haun Saussy
Illustrations
37 illustrations
Pages
486
Dimensions
152x229x27
ISBN-13
9781604979565
Product ID
27844890

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