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- ISBN 9780231195522
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 11 May 2021
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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“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.
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.
Jack W. Chen is associate professor of Chinese literature at the University of Virginia.
Anatoly Detwyler is assistant professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Christopher M. B. Nugent is professor of Chinese at Williams College.
Xiao Liu is assistant professor of East Asian studies at McGill University.
Bruce Rusk is associate professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia.
Anatoly Detwyler is assistant professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Christopher M. B. Nugent is professor of Chinese at Williams College.
Xiao Liu is assistant professor of East Asian studies at McGill University.
Bruce Rusk is associate professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia.
