书名：Writing and Materiality in Ancient China: The Textual Culture of the Mawangdui Tombs / 古代中国的书写与物质性：马王堆墓葬的文本文化
定价：535.0
ISBN：9780231219563
作者：Luke Waring
版次：1
出版时间：2025-11

内容提要：
书名：Writing and Materiality in Ancient China: The Textual Culture of the Mawangdui Tombs / 中国古代的文字与物质性：马王堆墓葬的文本文化 
作者：Luke Waring 
出版社：Columbia University Press 
装帧：精装 
页数：360–400页 
语种：英文 
尺寸：约 15.6*23.5 cm（6.12 x 9.25 英寸）

ISBN：978-0-2312-1956-3

简介
本书是对马王堆汉墓出土文献的一项跨学科研究。马王堆墓葬群位于中国中南地区，年代约为公元前二世纪早期至中叶，出土了包括丝帛、木简、竹简等多种材质在内的丰富书写材料及铭文器物。作者 Luke Waring 通过比较视角分析这些文书与器物，认为早期中国的书写应被理解为当时物质与视觉文化的一部分。
书中指出，文字文本的功能远不止于保存与传递信息，它们同时也扮演着工作任务、存储物品、表演辅助、驱邪符咒、装饰图案、展示品、私人财产及陪葬品等多元角色。书写甚至被整合进仪式表演和物质展示等更古老、或许更强大的文化表达模式中。Waring 的核心论点是：手稿与铭刻器物始终是“物”，是对创造它们的世界产生强大影响的物品。
本书由德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校亚洲研究助理教授 Luke Waring 撰写，属于哥伦比亚大学出版社“早期中国唐氏中心系列丛书”（Tang Center Series in Early China），为理解西汉早期的文本文化提供了全新视角。

Excavations at the famous Mawangdui tomb site in south-central China (early to mid-second century BCE) have unearthed many kinds of writing, including documents made of silk, wood, and bamboo as well as a wide range of inscribed artifacts. This book is an interdisciplinary study of these varied forms of writing, exploring the different roles that texts played in the lives and afterlives of Chinese elites during the Han dynasty. Examining documents and artifacts from the Mawangdui tombs in comparative perspective, Luke Waring demonstrates that early Chinese writing should be understood as part of the material and visual cultures of its time. Written texts were used to do more than simply preserve and transmit important information: they were also work tasks, storage items, performance aids, apotropaic talismans, aesthetically pleasing patterns, display pieces, possessions, and burial objects. Writing was even integrated into older, perhaps more powerful modes of cultural expression such as ritual performance and material display. Waring argues that manuscripts and inscribed objects were always things, artifacts that had powerful effects on the world that created them. Comprehensively researched and lavishly illustrated, Writing and Materiality in Ancient China offers a new understanding of the textual cultures of the early Western Han.