Revelation between Orality and Writing in Early Imperial China: The Epistemology of the Taiping jing

Grégoire Espesset

Revelation between Orality and Writing in Early Imperial China: The Epistemology of the Taiping jing

Author(s):

Grégoire Espesset (see profile)

Date:

2002

Subject(s):

China, Middle Ages, Chinese--Religion, Chinese classics, History, Orality, Writing

Item Type:

Article

Tag(s):

politics and religion, knowledge, Early medieval China, Chinese religions, Classical Chinese literature, Textual studies, Imperial China, Epistemology

Permanent URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/7hse-1c45

Abstract:

This article focuses on the early medieval Chinese work known as the "Great Peace Scripture" (Taiping jing 太平經). It examines views expressed therein in relation to the superhuman versus human origin of knowledge, media of knowledge storage, and the process of knowledge denaturation through successive oral or written transmission phases. It ends with a discussion of the possible nature of the main speaker's unspecified written source of authority.

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Publisher:

The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska Museet), Stockholm

Pub. Date:

2002

Journal:

Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities

Volume:

74

Page Range:

66 - 100

ISSN:

0081-5691

Status:

Published

Last Updated:

1 year ago

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