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This book argues that in the Qin-Han period, there arose in China a regime of textual authority - one that overlapped but did not coincide with imperial authority. Connery makes a contribution to the analysis of early imperial elite culture, particularly in the fields of literature and of linguistic, intellectual, and institutional history.

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Literary and cultural studies departments across the countries have undergone radical changes after 9/11. This work hopes to present a new way of talking about cultural studies, to give the idea of "worlding" as a prominent claim that knowledge and critical practices can range across geographic and cultural categories.