China's Philological Turn : : Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century /

China's Philological Turn : : Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century / / Ori Sela.

In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts and meanings and with the centrality of facts and truth to their schol...

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Sela, Ori,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Way and Its Crossroads
  • PART I. THE WAY OF MAN: SCHOLARLY NETWORKS AND THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP
  • 1. Learning to Be a Scholar
  • 2. Official Scholars and the Growing Philologists' Networks
  • 3. Private Scholars, Private Academies, and the Community of Knowledge
  • PART II. THE WAY OF ANTIQUITY: SEARCHING FOR THE TRUE WAY IN THE PAST
  • 4. The Way of Ancient Learning: Philology, Antiquity, and Ru Identity
  • 5. Philology and the Message of the Sages: The Classics and the Four Books
  • 6. Historical Philology: Navigating the Sources
  • PART III. THE WAY OF HEAVEN AND EARTH: THE MANDATE OF SCHOLARSHIP AND THE SEARCH FOR ORDER
  • 7. Astronomy, Mathematics, and Calendar: Historical Perspective
  • 8. Ancient Learning Encounters Western Learning: Scientific Knowledge and Its Cultural Baggage
  • 9. Fate, Ritual, and Ordering All Under Heaven
  • Conclusion: The Consequences of the Eighteenth-Century Intellectual Transformations
  • Appendix A: Selections from Qian Daxin's 1754 Palace Examination Answer
  • Appendix B: Major Shuowen and Erya Studies of the Qian-Jia Period (and Related Works), 1736-1820
  • Appendix C: Qian Daxin's Letter to Dai Zhen (1754)
  • Appendix D: Questions and Answers About Astronomy
  • Appendix E: Essay on the Value of π
  • Appendix F: Qian Daxin's Writings on Mathematics, Astronomy, and Divination
  • Appendix G: On Saṃsāra
  • Appendix H: Sources for the Works of Qian Daxin
  • Note on Abbreviations and Citations
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography of Chinese and Japanese Titles
  • Index

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