Literary Summary

Author: Du Zexun
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: This book consists of fourteen chapters, still falling within the scope of classical manuscriptology. The content includes the medium of documents, the formation and dissemination of documents, the collection and loss of documents, the editions of documents, the collation of documents, bibliographies, the compilation and authentication of lost texts, compendia and series, local chronicles and family histories, collected works and individual works, an overview of unearthed documents, and an overview of Dunhuang documents. The book covers: documents and the study of documents, the medium of documents, the formation and dissemination of documents, the collection and loss of documents, the editions of documents, and the collation of documents.