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Texts and Transformations: Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Victor H. Mair
Contributor(s): Saussy, Haun (Editor)
ISBN: 1604979569     ISBN-13: 9781604979565
Publisher: Cambria Press
OUR PRICE:   $66.49  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: March 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia - China
- Literary Criticism | Asian - General
- Religion | Buddhism - General (see Also Philosophy - Buddhist)
Dewey: 895.109
LCCN: 2018007060
Series: Cambria Sinophone World
Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6" W x 9" (1.56 lbs) 486 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Chinese
- Cultural Region - Asian
- Religious Orientation - Buddhist
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Saussy, Haun: - 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.