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Through close readings of excavated texts from Guōdiàn, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the way in which meaning is produced in early Chinese philosophical texts. It is the first book on early China to cast light on the relationship between material conditions and ideas and shows how, in an evolving manuscript culture, texts were used by different social groups.

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'Meyer's book is therefore a welcome and much needed contribution to the field of early Chinese textuality and intellectual history; it is as insightful as it is inspiring, and it may motivate the committed reader to look for deeper strata of meaning-creation in ancient Chinese texts.' Shirley Chan, Journal of Chinese Studies 59 (2014)

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Dirk Meyer, Ph.D. (2008, Leiden University), is University Lecturer in Chinese Philosophy at the Institute for Chinese Studies, and Fellow of The Queen's College, University of Oxford. He has published extensively on text and manuscript culture and strategies of meaning construction in early China.

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