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.