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Shuowen Jiezi and Textual Criticism in China

Thomas Creamer

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By 100 A.D. Xu Shen with his Shuowen Jiezi had firmly laid the cornerstone of Chinese lexicography. From at least the Tang Dynasty to the present, Shuowen has been the object of continuous study by lexicographers and textual scholars alike. Shuowen is valued as both an authoritative dictionary and an important text for any study of the ancient Chinese language.

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Key concepts: Criticism, Textual criticism, China, Literature, History, Art, Archaeology