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Manuscripts Studies Call for Multidisciplinary Vision

Author  :  Zhang Chunhai     Source  :    Chinese Social Sciences Today     2018-04-17

An international symposium on Manuscripts and Materiality of Text was held in Beijing from April 6 to 7, attracting a large number of scholars from both home and abroad. Martin Kern, dean of East Asian Studies at Princeton University raised the question “What we share manuscripts studies” and Michael Langlois from the University of Strasbourg analyzed the biblical manuscripts and the materiality of the biblical text while more Chinese scholars attention to handwriting styles in early Chinese manuscripts. In ancient China, manuscripts are one of the important text forms and have long acted as a primary carrier of words, but now it has become a hot academic topic in China. At the same time, more new research related to literary studies, history of books, and the materiality of texts is going viral globally, and it is necessary to conduct manuscript studies with a multidisciplinary vision and various new methods.

 

Editor: Yu Hui

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