| Variant title |
Writing and literacy in early China |
| Contents |
Introduction : writing as a phenomenon of literacy / Li Feng and David Prager Branner -- Getting "right" with heaven and the origins of writing in China / David W. Pankenier -- Literacy and the emergence of writing in China / William G. Boltz -- Phonology in the Chinese script and its relationship to early Chinese literacy / David Prager Branner -- Literacy to the south and the east of Anyang in Shang China : Zhengzhou and Daxinzhuang / Ken-ichi Takashima -- The evidence for scribal training at Anyang / Adam Smith -- Textual identity and the role of literacy in the transmission of early Chinese literature / Matthias L. Richter -- The royal audience and its reflections in western Zhou bronze inscriptions / Lothar von Falkenhausen -- Literacy and the social contexts of writing in the western Zhou / Li Feng -- Education and the way of the former kings / Constance A. Cook -- Soldiers, scribes, and women : literacy among the lower orders in early China / Robin D.S. Yates -- Craftsman's literacy : uses of writing by male and female artisans in Qin and Han China / Anthony J. Barbieri-Low. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011017770 |
| ISBN | 9780295991528 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0295991526 (hardback : alk. paper) |
