Origins of Chinese political philosophy : : studies in the composition and thought of the Shangshu (Classic of documents) / / edited by Martin Kern, Dirk Meyer.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Chinese Texts ; 8
• TeilnehmendeR: Kern, Martin.; Meyer, Dirk.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the History of Chinese Texts 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (515 pages).
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; 1 Language and the Ideology of Kingship in the “Canon of Yao” /; 2 Competing Voices in the Shangshu /; 3 Recontextualization and Memory Production: Debates on Rulership as Reconstructed from “Gu ming” 顧命 /; 4 One Heaven, One History, One People: Repositioning the Zhou in Royal Addresses to Subdued Enemies in the “Duo shi” 多士 and “Duo fang” 多方 Chapters of the Shangshu and in the “Shang shi” 商誓 Chapter of the Yi Zhoushu /; 5 The Qinghua “Jinteng” 金縢 Manuscript: What It Does Not Tell Us about the Duke of Zhou /; 6 “Shu” Traditions and Text Recomposition: A Reevaluation of “Jinteng” 金縢 and “Zhou Wu Wang you ji” 周武王有疾 /; 7 The Yi Zhoushu and the Shangshu: The Case of Texts with Speeches /; 8 The “Harangues” (Shi 誓) in the Shangshu /; 9 Speaking of Documents: Shu Citations in Warring States Texts /; 10 A Toiling Monarch? The “Wu yi” 無逸 Chapter Revisited /; 11 Against (Uninformed) Idleness: Situating the Didacticism of “Wu yi” 無逸 /; 12 “Bi shi” 粊誓, Western Zhou Oath Texts, and the Legal Culture of Early China /; 13 Concepts of Law in the Shangshu /; 14 Spatial Models of the State in Early Chinese Texts: Tribute Networks and the Articulation of Power and Authority in Shangshu “Yu gong” 禹貢 and Yi Zhoushu “Wang hui” 王會 /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004343504
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Martin Kern, Dirk Meyer.

Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy is the first book in any Western language to explore the composition, language, thought, and early history of the Shangshu (Classic of Documents), one of the pillars of the Chinese textual, intellectual, and political tradition. In examining the text from multiple disciplinary and intellectual perspectives, Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy challenges the traditional accounts of the nature and formation of the Shangshu and its individual chapters. As it analyzes in detail the central ideas and precepts given voice in the text, it further recasts the Shangshu as a collection of dynamic cultural products that expressed and shaped the political and intellectual discourses of different times and communities. Contributors are: Joachim Gentz, Yegor Grebnev, Magnus Ribbing Gren, Michael Hunter, Martin Kern, Maria Khayutina, Robin McNeal, Dirk Meyer, Yuri Pines, Charles Sanft, David Schaberg, Kai Vogelsang.