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Scribes in Early Imperial China.

Ma, Tsang Wing.

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Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Scribes in Early Imperial China./
Author:	Ma, Tsang Wing.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	201 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-04A(E).
Subject:	History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10624392
ISBN:	9780355429626

Scribes in Early Imperial China.
Ma, Tsang Wing.

Scribes in Early Imperial China. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 201 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2017.

Scribes were the writing specialists of the ancient world. The study of scribes in ancient China appears to be less developed than those in other ancient civilizations due to the scarcity of the evidence. A group of highly educated intellectuals dominated the transmitted textual tradition in ancient China, and they portrayed scribes as corrupt officials manipulating the laws and documents to their own benefit. This situation has changed dramatically in recent years because of the modern excavation of administrative and legal texts from the workplaces and tombs of scribes in mainland China. These excavated texts allow for the recovery of the scribes' world, which was previously overshadowed by that of intellectuals.

ISBN: 9780355429626Subjects--Topical Terms:

516518
History.

Scribes in Early Imperial China.
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