Foundations of Confucian Thought : : Intellectual Life in the Chunqiu Period, 722-453 B.C.E. / / Yuri Pines.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Pines, Yuri,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Notes on Translation, Terms, and Quotations --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Sources of Chunqiu Thought --; Chapter 2. Heaven and Man Part Ways: Changing Attitudes Toward Divine Authority --; Chapter 3. The Universal Panacea: Ritual and Preserving Hierarchical Order --; Chapter 4. The World Falls Apart: A Futile Search for International Order --; Chapter 5. When a Minister Mounts the Ruler: Chunqiu Views of Loyalty --; Chapter 6. Nobility of Blood and Spirit: Chunqiu Ethical Thought --; Chapter 7. The Chunqiu Legacy --; Appendix 1: Grammatical Change in the Zuo: Case Studies of the "Yu" and "Qi" Particles --; Appendix 2: Zhanguo Data in the Zuo --; Appendix 3: Comparing Scribal Accounts in the Zuo --; Appendix 4: Spurious Speeches and Interpolations in the Zuo --; Notes --; List of Chunqiu Personalities --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824862572; 9783110649772; 9783110564143; 9783110663259
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824862572
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Yuri Pines.

This ambitious work focuses on the world of Chinese thought during the two and a half centuries directly preceding and partly overlapping the time of Confucius. Ideas developed by Chunqiu statesmen and thinkers formed the intellectual milieu of Confucius and his disciples and contributed directly to the intellectual flowering of the Zhanguo (Warring States) era (453-221 B.C.E.), the formative period of the Chinese intellectual tradition. This study is the first attempt to systematically reconstruct major intellectual trends in pre-Confucian China. Foundations of Confucian Thought is based on an exploration of the Zuo zhuan, the largest pre-imperial historical text. Relying on meticulous textual and linguistic analysis, Yuri Pines argues that hundreds of the speeches of Chunqiu statesmen recorded in the Zuo zhuan were not invented by the compiler of the treatise but reproduced from earlier sources, thus making it an authentic reflection of the Chunqiu intellectual tradition. By tracing changes in ideas and concepts throughout the Chunqiu period, Pines reconstructs the dynamics of contemporary political and ethical discourse, distilling major intellectual impulses that Chunqiu thinkers bequeathed to their Zhanguo descendants.