Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn / / Zhongshu Dong.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Dong, Zhongshu,
• TeilnehmendeR: Major, John.; Queen, Sarah.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (704 p.)

The Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu) is a chronicle kept by the dukes of the state of Lu from 722 to 481 B.C.E. Luxuriant Gems of the "Spring and Autumn" (Chunqiu fanlu) follows the interpretations of the Gongyang Commentary, whose transmitters sought to explicate the special language of the Spring and Autumn. The work is often ascribed to the Han scholar and court official Dong Zhongshu, but, as this study reveals, the text is in fact a compendium of writings by a variety of authors spanning several generations. It depicts a utopian vision of a flourishing humanity that they believed to be Confucius's legacy to the world.The Gongyang masters thought that Confucius had written the Spring and Autumn, employing subtle phrasing to indicate approval or disapproval of important events and personages. Luxuriant Gems therefore augments Confucian ethical and philosophical teachings with chapters on cosmology, statecraft, and other topics drawn from contemporary non-Confucian traditions. A major resource, this book features the first complete English-language translation of Luxuriant Gems, divided into eight thematic sections with introductions that address dating, authorship, authenticity, and the relationship between the Spring and Autumn and the Gongyang approach. Critically illuminating early Chinese philosophy, religion, literature, and politics, this book conveys the brilliance of intellectual life in the Han dynasty during the formative decades of the Chinese imperial state.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Group 1. Exegetical Principles -- Group 2. Monarchical Principles -- Group 3. Regulatory Principles -- Group 4. Ethical Principles -- Group 5. Yin-Yang Principles -- Group 6. Five-Phase Principles -- Group 7. Ritual Principles -- Group 8. Heavenly Principles -- Appendix A. Biographies of the Confucian Scholars -- Appendix B. The Biography of Dong Zhongshu -- Selected Bibliography -- Index