 | China''s Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century Subjects: China -- Intellectual life -- 1644-1912; Chinese philology -- History; Learning and scholarship -- China -- History; Qian Daxin 1728-1804; Intellectuals -- China -- History; Scholars -- China -- History; Knowledge Sociology of; In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. In China's Philological Turn, Ori Sela foregrounds the polymath Qian Daxin to reconstruct the history of eighteenth-century Chinese learning and its long-lasting consequences. Ori Sela is an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University. |
