In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. In China's Philological Turn, Ori Sela foregrounds the polymath Qian Daxin to reconstruct the history of eighteenth-century Chinese learning and its long-lasting consequences.
In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. In China's Philological Tur...