Ori Sela's Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, China's Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century, won an honorable mention for the 2020 Joseph Levenson Prize in the category of Pre-1900 scholarly books. The book is published by Columbia University Press. The prizes are awarded to the English-language books that make the … [Read more...]
China’s Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the 18th Century
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Ori Sela (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. 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 … [Read more...]
