China's Philological Turn. Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century, Hardback/Ori Sela

In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. In China's Philological Turn , Ori Sela foregrounds the polymath Qian Daxin to reconstruct the history of eighteenth-century Chinese learning and its long-lasting consequences.