I diji del primo periodo medievale tra letteratura e filologia: il Jiaozhou ji di Liu Xinqi

Taking the Jiaozhou ji 交州記 (Notes on Jiaozhou) of Liu Xinqi 劉欣期 (ca. 4th century) as a case study, the thesis explores the realm of Early Medieval geographical accounts and their literary and cultural role. After a comprehensive description of the genre of diji, the discourse moves to the philological analysis of the Jiaozhou ji, its different collations, internal problematics and incongruences, thus advances a new methodology for a more scientific textual criticism of Chinese lost texts and more accurate collation of the work itself.