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The Enchantment of Erudition: Intellectual Labor and Literary Culture in Han-Wei China
Series: - Sinica Leidensia, Volume: 177
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This book invites readers on a critical journey across the evolving aesthetics and ideology of Chinese literary culture from the first century BCE to the third century CE. Central to our inquiry is a model of becoming—from a self-oriented intellectual labor toward an individually embodied state of “erudition” and its cross-media manifestations. The emergence and proliferation of this model fostered what the book encapsulates as an “enchantment of erudition,” a phenomenal re-orientation of literary culture toward a multi-centered realization of intellectual labor and individual embodiments—an alternative to the institutional regulation of knowledge production in early imperial China.
Yixin Gu, Ph.D. (2022), Princeton University, is Assistant Professor of Chinese literature at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. His research on classical literature, poetics, rhetoric, and intellectual history has been published in journals like T’oung Pao, JAOS, Early China, and CLEAR.
Sinologists and scholars of East Asian Studies, especially those interested in premodern Chinese literature, culture, and intellectual history.