Confucius and the Analects Revisited : : New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Chinese Texts ; v.11
• Author: Hunter, Michael.
• TeilnehmendeR: Kern, Martin.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2018.; ©2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the History of Chinese Texts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 pages)

Featuring contributions by preeminent scholars of early China, Confucius and the Analects Revisited: New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship advances and examines debates surrounding the history of the Confucian Analects.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Michael Hunter and Martin Kern -- The Continuing Currency of the Lunyu -- Our Position on the Lunyu -- Of Rugs and Dominoes -- The Contributions -- Chapter 1 -- A Critical Overview of Some Contemporary Chinese Perspectives on the Composition and Date of the Lunyu -- John Makeham -- 1 The Guodian Materials and the Dating of the Lunyu -- 2 The Shanghai Museum Strips, Intertextuality, and a Proto-Lunyu Corpus -- Concluding Comments -- Chapter 2 -- The Lunyu as an Accretion Text -- Robert Eno -- The Concept of an Accretion Text -- Theories of the Lunyu as an Accretion Text -- Japanese Sinology and the Accretion Theory -- The Brookses' Accretion Theory -- The Significance of Order within Disorder in the Lunyu -- The Historical Context for the Compilation of the Lunyu -- The Emergence of Confucian Aphoristic Collections -- The Likely Role of Qin Encyclopedism -- The Ru Underground of the Early Han and the Canonization of Confucius's Wisdom -- Closing the Canon -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 -- The Lunyu as a Western Han Text -- Michael Hunter -- The Title "Lunyu" -- Han 漢 Bibliography and the Limitations Thereof -- The Evidence from Lunyu Intertextuality: Kongzi Quotations -- Developments in Kongzi Quotation Practice -- The Lunyu as a Layered Text -- Reading the Lunyu as a Western Han Text -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 -- Confucius and His Disciples in the Lunyu: The Basis for the Traditional View -- Paul R. Goldin -- Evidence from Intellectual History -- The Evidence from Philosophical Vocabulary -- Evidence from References to Other Philosophers -- Chapter 5 -- The Lunyu, a Homeless Dog in Intellectual History: On the Dating of Discourses on Confucius's Success and Failure -- Joachim Gentz -- Terms, Concepts, and Ideas in the Lunyu: Taking Ren 仁 as an Example.

Portrayals of Confucius in the Lunyu: Taking Confucius's Success and Failure as an Example -- Success and Failure Outside of the Lunyu -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 -- Confucius's Sayings Entombed: On Two Han Dynasty Bamboo Lunyu Manuscripts -- Paul van Els -- The Dingzhou Analects -- Tomb and Excavation -- Tracings and Transcriptions -- Chapters, Sections, and Graphs -- Textual Differences -- The P'yŏngyang Analects -- Tomb and Discovery -- Features of the Manuscript -- Differences from the Received Analects -- Provenance of the Manuscripts -- When were the Manuscripts Copied? -- Where were the Manuscripts Copied? -- Why were the Manuscripts Copied? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 -- Manuscript Formats and Textual Structure in Early China -- Matthias L. Richter -- Hypotheses about the Influence of Manuscript Formats on Texts -- The Extension of Texts -- Correspondence between the Text and Its Carrier -- Mise-en-Page -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 -- Interlocutor Collections, the Lunyu, and Proto-Lunyu Texts -- Mark Csikszentmihalyi -- Two Early Versions of the "Interlocutor Text" Origin Story -- "Interlocutor Texts" in Early China: The Case of Zengzi 曾子 -- The First "Interlocutor Collection" and the Case of the Missing Zengzi 曾子 -- Topical Consistency in the Lunyu -- Chapter 9 -- Sima Qian's Kongzi and the Western Han Lunyu -- Esther Sunkyung Klein -- Overview of Sima Qian's Lunyu -- The Shiji on Kongzi's Disciples -- The Shiji "Kongzi shijia" -- Kongzi's Multiple Roles in the Shiji -- The Kongzi of Historical Texts -- An Esoteric Kongzi -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10 -- Kongzi as Author in the Han -- Martin Kern -- Epilogue -- Index.