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SUMMARY:Early China Seminar Lecture Series: Notes on the Note (ji 記) in Early Chinese Manuscripts: Between Administration and Affect
DESCRIPTION:Early China Seminar Lecture Series:\nNotes on the Note (ji 記) in Early Chinese Manuscripts: Between Administration and Affect \nLuke Habberstad\, University of Oregon \nSeminar Co-Chairs: \nJue Guo\, Barnard College\, Columbia University\nRoderick Campbell\, Institute for the Study of Ancient World\, New York University \nMarch 2rd\, 2018 (Friday)\n4:30-6:30pm\n1754 Board Room\, Faculty House\n64 Morningside Drive \nStudents of early Chinese manuscript culture continue to debate various typologies of the ever-growing corpus of excavated evidence. Many\, however\, at least implicitly agree on a distinction between “administrative” documents on the one hand and “literary” or “philosophical” manuscripts on the other\, and correspondingly focus on the different conventions that characterized both categories. The distinction is by no means unhelpful or wholly inaccurate\, but it nonetheless raises the question: Are all “administrative” documents bereft of “literary” affectations?  \nThe paper explores this and related questions through an analysis of excavated and received examples\, primarily from the Qin and Western Han\, of the “note” (ji 記)\, a murky category that encompassed everything from formal government orders and reports to messages and letters exchanged between people. At the same time\, our sources do allow us to trace a transformation in the ji from pre-imperial to early imperial periods: initially referring to annalistic records maintained in state archives\, or supposedly ancient texts containing authoritative knowledge\, by the Han period the dominant meaning of the ji was “note” or “letter.” Even if the emergence of commentarial practices had a role in this transformation\, this essay argues that the expansion and solidification of different types of administrative texts\, including “notes” that allowed for more casual orders\, efficient communication\, and affective exchanges\, also played a role. Without calling for the abandonment of the “administrative” vs. “literary” rubric\, the paper nonetheless encourages an examination of convention and rhetorical affect in texts central to quotidian government operations in order to better understand key changes in the early Chinese literature. \nCo-sponsored by The Tang Center for Early China\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, and The Columbia University Seminars\, Columbia University \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/notes-on-the-note-ji-%e8%a8%98-in-early-chinese-manuscripts-between-administration-and-affect/
LOCATION:1754 Board Room\, Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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