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Marginalia are a variety of writings and symbols written by readers in book margins. This study focuses on marginalia and explores the reading practices and the scholarly culture of late Imperial China. Beginning in the late Ming and early Qing, more scholars devoted themselves to reading and collating ancient texts.
They developed the habit of writing marginalia while reading, of transcribing other readers’ marginalia, and of printing marginalia, all of which formed a particular scholarly culture. This book explores how this culture developed, gained momentum, and shaped the styles, lives, thoughts, and mind states of scholars in late Imperial China.
They developed the habit of writing marginalia while reading, of transcribing other readers’ marginalia, and of printing marginalia, all of which formed a particular scholarly culture. This book explores how this culture developed, gained momentum, and shaped the styles, lives, thoughts, and mind states of scholars in late Imperial China.
Price: $132.00
Pages: 252
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
24 March 2022
ISBN: 9789004508156
Format: Hardcover
"With an interdisciplinary approach that draws upon intellectual history, cultural history, new bibliographical studies, and social history, this volume offers a new way of viewing texts. Those interested in textual analysis (especially Confucian textual analysis) will have much to gain from this volume."
– Joseph Chadwin, Religious Studies 49.2 (June 2023)
– Joseph Chadwin, Religious Studies 49.2 (June 2023)
Yinzong Wei, Ph.D. (UBC, 2019) is an Associate Researcher at Wuhan University. His published articles on Chinese philology and book history include “Marginalia Transcription and Scholarly Culture in the Qing Dynasty” Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 8:2 (2021).