The songs of the Royal Zh?u (“Zh?u Nán” ??) and of the Royal Shào (“Shào Nán” ??) have formed a conceptual unit since at least the late Spring and Autumn period (771–453 BC). With this book Meyer and Schwartz provide a first complete reading of their earliest, Warring States (453–221 BC), iteration as witnessed by the ?nhu? University manuscripts. As a thought experiment, the au…
Ambiguity is the “co-existence of two or more meanings” that do not have to be mutually exclusive but that still have to be clearly distinct from one another (“Conceptual Framework” n.pag.; cf. also Winter-Froemel and Zirker 285). One would assume that annotations – be they written by editors or by authors themselves – are the last place in a literary work where one wo…