Embodied Text

Matthias L. Richter, Ph.D. (2000) Hamburg University, is Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has published books and articles on early Chinese literature, textual criticism, and manuscript studies, including Guan Ren (Bern, 2005).

AAS Joseph Levenson Book Prize (Pre-1900 China): Honorable Mention: Matthias L. Richter: The Embodied Text: Establishing Textual Identity in Early Chinese Manuscripts (Brill)‘I would hate [..] to give the impression that I think this book is anything other than a superb work of scholarship. […] in its care for the presentation of the manuscript itself, Richter’s study of Min zhi fumu will surely serve as a model for future studies of the many individual manuscripts of ancient China that have been unearthed in recent years.’Edward L. Shaughnessy, Journal of Chinese Studies, 59 (2014)