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27. By way of contrast, the text of Sophocles' play Oedipus Tyrannus has had five critical editions devoted to it from 1866 to 1982. Of complete editions of Sophocles there exist at least eleven just in the present century.
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33. Roth, iii. Among the few working methodological examples available for practical guidance before Roth's work appeared, in addition to Thompson's path breaking study of the Shenzi fragments and Boltz's review of the Laozi, are the following, albeit small-scaled works: Gustav Haloun, in a series of articles in Asia Major, deals with philosophical fragments: Asia Major 8 (1932), 437–518Google Scholar; 9 (1933), 467-502; 10 (1935), 247-250; and n.s. 2 (1951), 85-120. Partly on the basis of Haloun's working notes, Jeffrey Riegel, University of California, Berkeley, has edited an unpublished manuscript called “The ‘Nei Yeh’: A Critical Edition.” Graham, A.C., Later Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press and School of Oriental and African Studies, and London: University of London 1978)Google Scholar, provides a critical edition of parts of Mozi.
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35. That is, “occasional” explications at various intervals rather than “interlinear” explications, because a sub-title of the work was Xu Shen jishang 許慎記上, ”Recorded Above [the text] by Xu Shen” Roth, 37.
36. Roth concludes (p. 54) that this work was written by He You 何誘, who is otherwise unknown, probably during the fourth century A.D. to supplement the Xu Shen commentary; later, it was distributed among the chapters in certain Xu Shen editions.
37. Thompson utilized Vinton Dealing, A Manual of Textual Analysis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959)Google Scholar; Dealing's more recent revision is Roth's theoretical foundation: Principles and Practice of Textual Analysis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974)Google Scholar.
38. These terms, their application to the field of textual history, and the theoretical underpinnings of Dearing's methodology are placed in the context of textual criticism in general and the specific cases of the Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Huainanzi in a later article by Roth: “Text and Edition in Early Chinese Philosophical Literature,’ Journal of the American Oriental Society 113 (04–June 1993), 214–227CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
39. Chapter Five was published simultaneously, with minimal additions including a diagram on transmission, as “The Strange Case of the Overdue Book: A Study in the Fortuity of Textual Transmission,’ in From Benares to Beijing: Essays in Honour of Professor Yün-hua Jan, ed. by Schopen, Gregory and Shinohara, Koichi (Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1992), 177–208Google Scholar.
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55. Roth does adopt Thompson's list of orthographic variants that need not be consulted, adding three new ones (p. 415 n. 9), and does discount minor scribal errors that are easily correctable (e.g. p. 330).
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58. The most famous example is probably Xuecheng, Zhang 章學誠(1738-1801), Jiaochou tongyi 校讎通義(rpt. Taibei: Taiwan Zhonghua shuju, 1965)Google Scholar. A modern exemplar is Shuda, Yang 楊樹達, Gushu judu shiii 古書句讚釋例, Gushu yiyi juli xubu 古書異義舉例續補 (Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 1991)Google Scholar. All of the standard handbooks on jiaokanxue also illustrate the practice with copious illustrations.
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g) Colometry. Colometiy is the analysis of a text by isolating individual metrical units, called cola. Metrical analysis can be applied to ancient Chinese documents because the Chinese, by the exigencies of writing on bamboo strips, almost automatically parsed their prose into symmetrical units. It is therefore sometimes possible to trace instances of textual corruption to the misplacement of individual bamboo strips. For instance, recently Edward L. Shaughnessy has emended the text of the Zhushu jinian on the basis of a transposed bamboo strip of forty characters, a number confirmed by the original redactor of the text in the late third centuty A.D. See Shaughnessy, , “On the Authenticity of the Bamboo Annals,’ Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 46 (1986), 165–167CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See further the examples adduced at Loewe, Michael, Records of Han Administration., 2 vols. University Cambridge Oriental Publications No. 11 (Cambridge, 1967), vol. I, 38 n. 59Google Scholar. A more formM attempt in this direction was hazarded by Peter A. Boodberg in 1957. He attempted to show how Chinese accounts of barbarians can be systematically parsed “isocolometrically” into one of three typical lengths of cola:
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