Scholars and Their Marginalia in Late Imperial China

Yinzong Wei, Ph.D. (UBC, 2019) is an Associate Researcher at Wuhan University. His published articles on Chinese philology and book history include “Marginalia Transcription and Scholarly Culture in the Qing Dynasty” Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 8:2 (2021).

• List of Figures and TablesConventionsChart of Historical Periods1 Introduction2 Chinese Interpretive Texts: Annotations, Commentaries and Marginalia1 Contents and Features2 Forms and Circulation3 The “Reading Seed”: He Zhuo and His Marginalia1 He Zhuo: The “Reading Seed”2 He Zhuo’s Scholarly Transition3 A Pioneer of Textual Criticism4 Reading He Zhuo’s Historical Comments5 The Stigmatization of a Scholar4 Scholarly Communities and the Transcription of Marginalia1 He Zhuo and His Students: Transcription of the Teacher’s Marginalia2 Scholarly Communities and the Transcription of Marginalia3 Booksellers and Scribes and Their Role in the Marginalia Culture4 Shaping the Text of the Classics5 Marginalia Culture5 The Writing of Scholarly Lives in Marginalia1 Temporal and Spatial Records in Marginalia2 The Artistic Lives of the Scholars3 The Mental World of the Scholars6 Edited Reading: The Printing of Marginalia in the Qing Dynasty1 The Printing of the Yimen dushu ji2 Printing Marginalia alongside the Main Text3 The Printing of Collation Notes4 The Flourishing of Collation Biji5 The Merits of Printing7 Epilogue1 Marginalia and the Evidential Research2 Invisible Scholars and the Intellectual History of the QingAppendix: Books Containing He Zhuo’s Marginalia and Their TranscriptionsBibliographyIndex

"With an interdisciplinary approach that draws upon intellectual history, cultural history, new bibliographical studies, and social history, this volume offers a new way of viewing texts. Those interested in textual analysis (especially Confucian textual analysis) will have much to gain from this volume." – Joseph Chadwin, Religious Studies 49.2 (June 2023)