Excavated Chinese manuscripts - Prof. Dirk Meyer

This is an interview with Prof. Dirk Meyer of Oxford University, conducted at Tsinghua University in Beijing, at the end of a two-day conference on ancient Chinese manuscripts. Prof. Meyer talked about his research on Chinese philosophical manuscripts, his distrust of transmitted texts, and the inadequate understanding of the quantity of Chinese manuscripts on the part of Western scholars. He also introduced the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures, which he co-founded with colleagues at Queens College Oxford. This is a centre that brings together scholars working on different text traditions, realizing that they are facing similar problems despite the linguistic differences.