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The twilight of the Masters: Masters Literature (zishu) in early medieval China.(Critical essay)
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The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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October 1, 2006
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INTRODUCTION
In the early period of Chinese history, the notion of authorship is closely tied to the notion of sagehood. It is not that being a sage necessarily entails creating and writing (zuo [NON ASCII]), but rather that one must be a sage to create and write. In his paper "The Temptations of Sage-hood, or: The Rise and Decline of Sagely Writing in Early China," Michael Puett makes a compelling case arguing that over the course of the second century, with the spread of paper and increasing commonality of writing, the claim to sagehood no longer served as a basis for textual authority. (1) As a result of the technological advance and shifts in the cultural paradigm of ...
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