Christian Schwermann, Ph.D. (2005), University of Bonn, is lecturer of Classical Chinese at that university. He has published chiefly on early Chinese literature, including a monograph on the concept of stupidity in ancient texts (“Dummheit” in altchinesischen Texten, Harrassowitz, 2011).Raji C. Steineck, Ph.D. (2000), University of Bonn, is Professor of Japanology at the University of Zurich. He mainly works on the interrelation between symbolic configurations and ideational content in Japanese intellectual history, as in his new work on the Critique of Symbolic Forms (frommann-holzboog, 2014).

• PrefaceIntroductionRaji C. Steineck and Christian SchwermannComposite Authorship in Western Zhōu Bronze Inscriptions: The Case of the “Tiānwáng guǐ” InscriptionChristian SchwermannAuthorship in the Canon of Songs (Shi Jing)Alexander BeecroftThe Compiler as the Narrator: Awareness of Authorship, Authorial Presence and Author Figurations in Japanese Imperial Anthologies, with a Special Focus on the Kokin wakashūSimone MüllerFluidity of Belonging and Creative Appropriation: Authorship and Translation in an Early Sinic Song (“Kongmudoha Ka”)Marion EggertAppropriating Genius: Jin Shengtan’s Construction of Textual Authority and Authorship in his Commented Edition of Shuihu Zhuan (The Water Margin Saga)Roland AltenburgerEnlightened Authorship: The Case of Dōgen KigenRaji C. SteineckIndex

Christian Schwermann, Ph.D. (2005), University of Bonn, is lecturer of Classical Chinese at that university. He has published chiefly on early Chinese literature, including a monograph on the concept of stupidity in ancient texts (“Dummheit” in altchinesischen Texten, Harrassowitz, 2011).Raji C. Steineck, Ph.D. (2000), University of Bonn, is Professor of Japanology at the University of Zurich. He mainly works on the interrelation between symbolic configurations and ideational content in Japanese intellectual history, as in his new work on the Critique of Symbolic Forms (frommann-holzboog, 2014).

• PrefaceIntroductionRaji C. Steineck and Christian SchwermannComposite Authorship in Western Zhōu Bronze Inscriptions: The Case of the “Tiānwáng guǐ” InscriptionChristian SchwermannAuthorship in the Canon of Songs (Shi Jing)Alexander BeecroftThe Compiler as the Narrator: Awareness of Authorship, Authorial Presence and Author Figurations in Japanese Imperial Anthologies, with a Special Focus on the Kokin wakashūSimone MüllerFluidity of Belonging and Creative Appropriation: Authorship and Translation in an Early Sinic Song (“Kongmudoha Ka”)Marion EggertAppropriating Genius: Jin Shengtan’s Construction of Textual Authority and Authorship in his Commented Edition of Shuihu Zhuan (The Water Margin Saga)Roland AltenburgerEnlightened Authorship: The Case of Dōgen KigenRaji C. SteineckIndex

Christian Schwermann, Ph.D. (2005), University of Bonn, is lecturer of Classical Chinese at that university. He has published chiefly on early Chinese literature, including a monograph on the concept of stupidity in ancient texts (“Dummheit” in altchinesischen Texten, Harrassowitz, 2011).Raji C. Steineck, Ph.D. (2000), University of Bonn, is Professor of Japanology at the University of Zurich. He mainly works on the interrelation between symbolic configurations and ideational content in Japanese intellectual history, as in his new work on the Critique of Symbolic Forms (frommann-holzboog, 2014).

• PrefaceIntroductionRaji C. Steineck and Christian SchwermannComposite Authorship in Western Zhōu Bronze Inscriptions: The Case of the “Tiānwáng guǐ” InscriptionChristian SchwermannAuthorship in the Canon of Songs (Shi Jing)Alexander BeecroftThe Compiler as the Narrator: Awareness of Authorship, Authorial Presence and Author Figurations in Japanese Imperial Anthologies, with a Special Focus on the Kokin wakashūSimone MüllerFluidity of Belonging and Creative Appropriation: Authorship and Translation in an Early Sinic Song (“Kongmudoha Ka”)Marion EggertAppropriating Genius: Jin Shengtan’s Construction of Textual Authority and Authorship in his Commented Edition of Shuihu Zhuan (The Water Margin Saga)Roland AltenburgerEnlightened Authorship: The Case of Dōgen KigenRaji C. SteineckIndex