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Revelation between Orality and Writing in Early Imperial China: The Epistemology of the Taiping jing
- Author(s):
- Grégoire Espesset (see profile)
- Date:
- 2002
- Subject(s):
- China, Middle Ages, Chinese--Religion, Chinese classics, History, Orality, Writing
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- politics and religion, knowledge, Early medieval China, Chinese religions, Classical Chinese literature, Textual studies, Imperial China, Epistemology
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/7hse-1c45
- Abstract:
- This article focuses on the early medieval Chinese work known as the "Great Peace Scripture" (Taiping jing 太平經). It examines views expressed therein in relation to the superhuman versus human origin of knowledge, media of knowledge storage, and the process of knowledge denaturation through successive oral or written transmission phases. It ends with a discussion of the possible nature of the main speaker's unspecified written source of authority.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 1 year ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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