Literary Information in China : : A History / / ed. by Bruce Rusk, Christopher Nugent, Xiao Liu, Anatoly Detwyler, Jack W. Chen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Sarah M.,; Altehenger, Jennifer,; Blair, Ann M.,; Brokaw, Cynthia,; Chen, Jack W.,; Chen, Kaijun,; Chen, Xi,; Clifford, Timothy,; Culp, Robert J.,; Denton, Kirk A.,; Detwyler, Anatoly,; Egan, Ronald C,; Feng, Jin,; Fitzgerald, Devin,; Forges, Alexander Des,; Fox, Ariel,; Franca Sibau, Maria,; Fuller, Michael A.,; Galambos, Imre,; Gandolfo, Stefano,; Gibbs Hill, Michael,; Guo, Shaohua,; Hamm, John Christopher,; Handel, Zev,; He, Yuming,; Heller, Natasha,; Hon Lam, Ling,; Huang, Martin W.,; Hunter, Michael,; Huters, Theodore D.,; Indraccolo, Lisa,; Judge, Joan,; Kuzuoğlu, Uluğ,; Laughlin, Charles A,; Li, Jianli,; Li-Min Chun, Tarryn,; Liu, Xiao,; Love, Michael,; Meng, Yue,; Meyer, Dirk,; Mullaney, Thomas S,; Nicoll-Johnson, Evan,; Nugent, Christopher M. B.,; Nylan, Michael,; Patterson, Gregory,; Prager Branner, David,; Raft, Zeb,; Rojas, Carlos,; Rusk, Bruce,; Shields, Anna M.,; Son, Suyoung,; Sturgeon, Donald,; Tian, Xiaofei,; Vankeerberghen, Griet,; Vedal, Nathan,; Yang, Jidong,; Zhong, Yurou,
• HerausgeberIn: Chen, Jack W.,; Detwyler, Anatoly,; Liu, Xiao,; Nugent, Christopher,; Rusk, Bruce,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 24 tables and figures

“Information” has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world that became central only in the digital age. In this book, leading experts turn to China’s textual tradition to show the significance of information for reconceptualizing the work of literary history, from its beginnings to the present moment.Contributors trace the organization of literary information across China’s three millennia of history, examining the forms and practices of information management that have evolved alongside the increasing scale and complexity of textual production. They reimagine literary history as information processing, detailing the many kinds of storage, encoding, sorting, and transmission that constitute and feed back into China’s long and ever-growing cultural tradition. The volume features state-of-the-field essays on all major forms of literary information management, from graphs to internet literature, and from commentaries to literary museums and archives. By shifting focus from individual works and their authors to the informatic schemata of literature, it identifies three scales of information management—the word, the document, and the collection—and surveys the forms that operate at each level, such as the dictionary, the anthology, and the library.Literary Information in China is a groundbreaking work that provides a systematic and innovative reassessment of literary history with implications that extend beyond the particular Chinese context, revealing how informatic practices shape literary tradition.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- A NOTE TO READERS -- CHRONOLOGY -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION For a History of Literary Information in China -- PART I INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AT THE LEVEL OF THE WORD -- SECTION A GRAPHS -- CHAPTER 1 GRAPHS -- CHAPTER 2 SCRIPT REFORM AND ALPHABETIZATION -- CHAPTER 3 INDEXING SYSTEMS -- CHAPTER 4 CHARACTER INPUT -- SECTION B LEXICONS -- CHAPTER 5 EARLY LEXICONS -- CHAPTER 6 RIME TABLES -- CHAPTER 7 LATER IMPERIAL LEXICONS -- CHAPTER 8 EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY DICTIONARIES -- CHAPTER 9 POST-1949 DICTIONARIES -- CHAPTER 10 APP-BASED AND ONLINE DICTIONARIES -- SECTION C TEXT AND TEXTUAL DIVISIONS -- CHAPTER 11 SENTENCES, PARAGRAPHS, AND SECTIONS -- CHAPTER 12 LINES, COUPLETS, AND STANZAS -- CHAPTER 13 PREMODERN PUNCTUATION AND LAYOUT -- CHAPTER 14 MODERN PUNCTUATION AND LAYOUT -- SECTION D COMMENTARIES -- CHAPTER 15 EARLY TO MIDDLE PERIOD CLASSICAL COMMENTARIES -- CHAPTER 16 POETRY COMMENTARIES -- CHAPTER 17 FICTION COMMENTARIES -- CHAPTER 18 DRAMA COMMENTARIES -- CHAPTER 19 READER’S GUIDES -- PART II INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AT THE LEVEL OF THE DOCUMENT -- SECTION A ANTHOLOGIES -- CHAPTER 20 EARLY ANTHOLOGIES -- CHAPTER 21 MEDIEVAL LITERARY ANTHOLOGIES -- CHAPTER 22 LATER IMPERIAL POETRY ANTHOLOGIES -- CHAPTER 23 LATER IMPERIAL PROSE ANTHOLOGIES -- CHAPTER 24 RELIGIOUS LITERARY ANTHOLOGIES -- CHAPTER 25 PREMODERN FICTION AND FICTION COLLECTIONS -- CHAPTER 26 PREMODERN DRAMA ANTHOLOGIES -- CHAPTER 27 MODERN LITERARY ANTHOLOGIES -- CHAPTER 28 MODERN DRAMA SCRIPT ANTHOLOGIES -- CHAPTER 29 TEXTBOOK ANTHOLOGIES -- SECTION B ENCYCLOPEDIAS -- CHAPTER 30 MEDIEVAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS -- CHAPTER 31 MIDDLE PERIOD IMPERIAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS -- CHAPTER 32 LATER IMPERIAL VERNACULAR ENCYCLOPEDIAS -- CHAPTER 33 QING DYNASTY IMPERIAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS -- CHAPTER 34 TWENTIETH-CENTURY VERNACULAR ENCYCLOPEDIAS -- CHAPTER 35 ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND WIKIS -- SECTION C HISTORIES -- CHAPTER 36 EARLY HISTORIES -- CHAPTER 37 EARLY MEDIEVAL HISTORIES -- CHAPTER 38 DYNASTIC HISTORIES FROM TANG TO SONG -- CHAPTER 39 LATE IMPERIAL HISTORIES -- CHAPTER 40 LITERARY HISTORIES -- PART III INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AT THE LEVEL OF THE COLLECTION -- SECTION A LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS, AND ARCHIVES -- CHAPTER 41 LIBRARIES FROM THE EARLY PERIOD TO THE TANG -- CHAPTER 42 LIBRARIES FROM SONG TO QING -- CHAPTER 43 LATE IMPERIAL LITERARY ARCHIVES -- CHAPTER 44 MODERN LIBRARIES -- CHAPTER 45 MODERN LITERATURE MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES -- CHAPTER 46 DOCUMENT SERVICES -- CHAPTER 47 THEMATIC RESEARCH COLLECTIONS -- SECTION B BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDICES -- CHAPTER 48 EARLY BIBLIOGRAPHIES -- CHAPTER 49 MEDIEVAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES -- CHAPTER 50 LATER IMPERIAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES -- CHAPTER 51 TWENTIETH-CENTURY BIBLIOGRAPHIES -- CHAPTER 52 INDICES AND CONCORDANCES -- SECTION C SERIAL PUBLICATIONS -- CHAPTER 53 PREMODERN LITERARY COLLECTANEA -- CHAPTER 54 MODERN LITERARY COLLECTANEA -- CHAPTER 55 LITERARY NEWSPAPERS AND TABLOIDS -- CHAPTER 56 LITERARY JOURNALS -- CHAPTER 57 OVERSEAS CHINESE NEWSPAPERS -- CHAPTER 58 INTERNET LITERATURE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX OF PEOPLE AND SELECT INSTITUTIONS -- INDEX OF DOCUMENTS, PUBLICATIONS, AND ELECTRONIC RESOURCES