Sinica Leidensia The Enchantment of Erudition: Intellectual Labor and Literary Culture in Han-Wei China, Book 177, (Hardcover)

This book invites readers on a critical journey across the evolving aesthetics and ideology of Chinese literary culture from the first century BCE to the third century CE. Central to our inquiry is a model of becoming--from a self-oriented intellectual labor toward an individually embodied state of "erudition" and its cross-media manifestations. The emergence and proliferation of this model fostered what the book encapsulates as an "enchantment of erudition," a phenomenal re-orientation of literary culture toward a multi-centered realization of intellectual labor and individual embodiments--an alternative to the institutional regulation of knowledge production in early imperial China.

• Sinica Leidensia The Enchantment of Erudition: Intellectual Labor and Literary Culture in Han-Wei China, Book 177, (Hardcover)
• Author: Brill
• ISBN: 9789004763289
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-10-15
• Page Count: 0