Statecraft and classical learning : the Rituals of Zhou in East Asian history / / edited by Benjamin A. Elman, Martin Kern.

Statecraft and Classical Learning is devoted to the Rituals of Zhou , one of the ancient Chinese Classics. In addition to its canonical stature in classical learning, the massive text was of unique significance to the pre-modern statecraft of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam where it served as the c...

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Superior document:Studies in the history of Chinese texts, v. 1
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Studies in the history of Chinese texts ; v. 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource (452 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern
  • Part I. Early China. The Zhouli as constitutional text / David Schaberg
  • Offices of writing and reading in the Rituals of Zhou / Martin Kern
  • The many dukes of Zhou in early sources / Michael Nylan
  • Centering the realm: Wang Mang, the Zhouli, and early Chinese statecraft / Michael Puett
  • Zheng Xuan's commentary on the Zhouli / Andrew H. Plaks
  • Part II. Medieval China. The role of the Zhouli in seventh- and eighth-century civil administrative traditions / David McMullen
  • Wang Anshi and the Zhouli / Peter K. Bol
  • Tension and balance: changes of constitutional schemes in Southern Song commentaries on the Rituals of Zhou / Jaeyoon Song
  • Part III. Early modern East Asia. Tokugawa approaches to the Rituals of Zhou: the late Mito School and "feudalism" / Kate Wildman Nakai
  • Yun Hyu and the search for dominance: a seventeenth-century Korean reading of the Offices of Zhou and the Rituals of Zhou / JaHyun Kim Haboush
  • The story of a chapter: changing views of the "Artificer's Record" ("Kaogong ji") and the Zhouli / Benjamin A. Elman
  • Part IV. Modern China. The Zhouli as the late Qing path to the future / Rudolf G. Wagner
  • Denouement: some conclusions about the Zhouli / Rudolf G. Wagner.