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- Title: Lexical Changes in Zhanguo Texts.
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2002
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 231 KB
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THREE QUARTERS OF A CENTURY AGO Bernhard Karlgren undertook a bold attempt to analyze grammatical differences among major pre-imperial texts in order to verify their dating and authenticity. His studies, among which the article "On the Authenticity and Nature of the Tso Chuan" was the most influential, had a profound impact on scholarly discourse in China and in the West. Numerous scholars have followed Karlgren's lead, modified or criticized his methodology, and tried to propose alternative ways of dating pre-imperial writings. (1) Attempts to develop new approaches toward the dating of Chunqiu [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (722-453 B.C.) and Zhanguo [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (453-221 B.C.) texts were aimed at resolving one of the most controversial issues in the history of Chinese thought. Establishing a chronological sequence of pre-imperial texts might allow us to discern lines of intellectual influence among contemporary thinkers and resolve many enigmas of their intellectual legacy, which shaped China's traditional culture. Yet despite the great scholarly importance of this issue, attempts to establish a general chronology for pre-imperial texts were less popular among Western scholars in the last quarter of the twentieth century. W. A. C. H. Dobson's efforts in the 196fls were the last to propose a comprehensive chronological framework for pre-imperial writings, (2) until the more recent and ongoing work of E. Bruce Brooks.
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