In The Embodied Text Matthias L. Richter offers an exemplary study of a 300 BCE Chinese manuscript, exploring significant differences between the Warring States manuscript text and its transmitted early imperial counterparts. These differences reveal the adaptation of the text to a changed political environment as well as general ideological developments. This study further demonstrates how the physical embodiment of the text in the manuscript reflects modes of textual formation and social uses of written texts.
AAS Joseph Levenson Book Prize (Pre-1900 China):
Honorable Mention: Matthias L. Richter: The Embodied Text: Establishing Textual Identity in Early Chinese Manuscripts (Brill)
'I would hate [..] to give the impression that I think this book is anything other than a superb work of scholarship. [...] in its care for the presentation of the manuscript itself, Richter's study of Min zhi fumu will surely serve as a model for future studies of the many individual manuscripts of ancient China that have been unearthed in recent years.'
Edward L. Shaughnessy, Journal of Chinese Studies, 59 (2014)

《唐代科举与文学(文学类)》把唐代的科举与唐代的文学结合在一起，作为研究的课题，是想尝试运用一种方法。这种方法，就是试图通过史学与文学的相互渗透或沟通，掇拾古人在历史记载、文学描写中的有关社会史料，做综合的考察，来研究唐代士子的生活道路、思维方式和心理状态，并努力重视当时部分的时代风貌和社会习俗，以作为文化整体研究的素材和前姿。