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  title info:
    title: Nominal things
    sub title: bronzes in the making of medieval China
  title info:
    title: Bronzes in the making of medieval China
  name:
    name part: Moser, Jeffrey
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: VerfasserIn
    role:
      role term: aut
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    place:
      place term: XD-US
    date issued: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 293 Seiten Illustrationen 26 cm
  abstract: Introduction -- Part I. The lexical picture. Names as implements; Picturing names -- Part II. The empirical impression. The style of antiquity; Agents of change; Nominal empiricism -- Part III. The schematic thing. Substance into schema; Nominal casting -- Conclusion.
  abstract: "Eleventh-century scholars living in China were the first people in world history to systematically excavate, illustrate, and document ancient artifacts. The methods they developed to record these "traces" of the past-the most celebrated being bronze ritual vessels that had been cast nearly two thousand years earlier-laid the foundations for the empirical systems that scholars throughout early modern East Asia would use to make sense of the world. Nominal Things explains how the scholars who studied these bronzes struggled to understand the relationship between their complex shapes and décor and the ancient glyphs inscribed into their bodies. As they deciphered these glyphs, they came to realize that the bronzes were "nominal things"--objects inscribed with the names of the categories to which they belonged: cauldrons inscribed with the word "cauldron" (ding), ewers inscribed with the word "ewer" (yi), and so forth. The scholars knew those names from hallowed Confucian writings that had been passed down through the centuries, but shockingly, the things they thought those names referred to looked nothing like the bronzes upon which the names were found. Nominal Things traces the process whereby a distinctive East Asian tradition of empiricism was nurtured by this discrepancy between the complex, "garrulous" materiality of the bronzes and the solemn, written liturgies into which Confucian ritualists sought to inscribe them"
  note: Jeffrey Moser
  note: Literaturverzeichnis: S. 265-281
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index
  subject:
    topic: Bronzes
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Bronze implements
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Bronze implements
    geographic: China
    topic: Classification
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Art criticism
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Learning and scholarship
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Confucianism
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Civilization
    temporal: 960-1644
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Intellectual life
  classification: NK7983
  classification: 739.5/120951
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      publisher: 2024
    identifier: (DE-627)1912195097
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    note: Online-Ausgabe
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  identifier: 9780226822464
  identifier: 2022018101
  identifier: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780226822464.pdf
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      url: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780226822464.pdf
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    record content source: DE-627
    record creation date: 220627
    record change date: 20260612205503.0
    record identifier: 1807978664
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      language term: ger