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Contents Introduction: The Ritual Texture of Early China MARTIN KERN 1. Toward an Archaeology of Writing: Text, Ritual, and the Culture of Public Display in the Classical Period (475 B.C.E.-220 C.E.) MICHAEL NYLAN 2. The Composite Nature of Early Chinese Texts WILLIAM G. BOLTZ 3. The E Jun Qi Metal Tallies: Inscribed Texts and Ritual Contexts LOTHAR VON FALKENHAUSEN 4. The Ritual Meaning of Textual Form: Evidence from Early Commentaries of the Historiographic and Ritual Traditions JOACHIM GENTZ 5. The Odes in Excavated Manuscripts MARTIN KERN 6. Playing at Critique: Indirect Remonstrance and the Formation of Shi Identity DAVID SCHABERG 7. Reimagining the Yellow Emperor's Four Faces MARK CSIKSZENTMIHALYI 8. Text and Ritual in Early Chinese Stelae K. E. BRASHIER Works Cited Contributors Index
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Chinese classics -- Criticism, Textual.
Religion in literature.