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Donnerstag, 12. April 2018, 09:30 - 18:30 Uhr; Universität Zürich, Raum KOL G 217, Rämistrasse 71, 8001 Zürich
Freitag, 13. April 2018, 09:30 - 18:30 Uhr; Universität Zürich, Raum KOL G 217, Rämistrasse 71, 8001 Zürich
Samstag, 14. April 2018, 9:30 - 16:30 Uhr; Universität Zürich, Raum KO2 F 152, Karl-Schmid-Strasse 4, 8001 Zürich
Both in Chinese and in European sinology, traditional hermeneutic approaches to Early Chinese texts have been prioritizing content over form in their attempts to unravel allegedly “true” or normative “original” meanings. However, a large amount of information is arguably lost or misread in this process that could improve our understanding of early forms of argument construction (Meyer 2012) in Classical Chinese literature. Recent archaeological manuscript findings have prompted a reassessment of our assumptions of Early Chinese culture and literature. Such findings have brought to the fore the necessity to broaden our interpretative horizons by adopting a more comprehensive approach that takes the interactions between form, content, and material carrier into regular consideration (Richter 2013). It is against this background that renewed attention has been paid throughout the last decade to the study of different kinds of text-structuring devices in Early Chinese texts (Behr and Gentz 2005; Pohl and Wöhrle 2011; Gentz and Meyer 2015). Following this recent trend, the present workshop proposes to adopt a method of inquiry that focuses on the structure of a text at different levels, and, in particular, to explore the fundamental role played by two different kinds of text structuring devices – structural patterns and phonological patterns – at play in the make-up of Early Chinese texts. Individual contributions will address the use of one or more of the following devices and/or their interactions in pertinent case studies:
Asien-Orient-Institut – Sinologie