2021/10/01 by Adam Smith, Maddalena Poli · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Chinese history and philosophy #Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics #Japanese History and Culture #Copying #Memorization #Ode #Function (biology) #Sight #Computer science #History #Literature #Philosophy #Art #Linguistics #Physics #Astronomy #Political science #Evolutionary biology #Law
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0041977x22000015
openalex publication_date 2021/10/01 · openalex created_date 2022/07/14 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Abstract In this article we review the newly published fourth-century bce manuscript of the Book of Odes ( Shi jing 詩經) in the collection of Anhui University. We describe the preservation and material features of the manuscript, discuss issues of provenance, and compare the text with the received version of the Odes . We conclude that the text of the Odes was already fundamentally stable by the date of the manuscript, and that written versions like the Anda manuscript provided important support for the stability of the text. However, we also argue that the manuscript shows signs of having been produced from memory, rather than sight-copying from another manuscript. We suggest that the function of the Anda manuscript was to support the learning and memorization of the Odes .