Textual Practices of Literary Training in Medieval China : : Evidence from Dunhuang Manuscripts / / Christopher M.B. Nugent.

• Superior document: Studies in the history of Chinese texts ; Volume 16
• VerfasserIn: Nugent, Christopher M. B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of Chinese texts ; Volume 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 342 pages) :; illustrations (some color).

"Through close examination of a set of educational works discovered among the Dunhuang manuscripts, this book presents new insights into the literary training undertaken by the elite of medieval China. In their contents and structures, these works tell us what parts of the literary and cultural inheritance the elite were expected to learn and how they learned them. The material aspects of these manuscripts - including handwriting, copying errors, and paratextual additions - show how students in Dunhuang used and reproduced them. What emerges is a picture of a literary education that is more diverse in its sources, and also more haphazard, than previously imagined"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Kaimeng yaoxun: a foundation for literary training -- Qianzi wen as mnemonic scaffold -- Yudui: parallel sayings as tool and method -- Zachao: a complex miscellany -- Tuyuan cefu: a primer for exams and officialdom.