The Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China - Paperback

by Christopher Leigh Connery (Author)

This unique study argues that in the Qin-Han period, there arose in China a regime of textual authority-one that overlapped but did not coincide with imperial authority. Drawing on a wide range of research and theory, Connery makes an original contribution to the analysis of early imperial elite culture, particularly in the fields of literature and linguistics, intellectual, and institutional history.

Author Biography

Christopher Leigh Connery is associate professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.