Ori Sela: 1 book
China's Philological Turn
Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
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 with the centrality of facts and truth to their scholarship...
