The Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China 0847687384, 9780847687381

This unique study argues that in the Qin-Han period, there arose in China a regime of textual authority_one that overlap

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The Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China
0847687384, 9780847687381

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