Origins of Chinese political philosophy : : studies in the composition and thought of the Shangshu (Classic of documents) / / 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 mult...

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Superior document:Studies in the History of Chinese Texts ; 8
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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).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction / Martin Kern and Dirk Meyer
  • 1 Language and the Ideology of Kingship in the “Canon of Yao” / Martin Kern
  • 2 Competing Voices in the Shangshu / Kai Vogelsang
  • 3 Recontextualization and Memory Production: Debates on Rulership as Reconstructed from “Gu ming” 顧命 / Dirk Meyer
  • 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  / Joachim Gentz
  • 5 The Qinghua “Jinteng” 金縢 Manuscript: What It Does Not Tell Us about the Duke of Zhou / Magnus Ribbing Gren
  • 6 “Shu” Traditions and Text Recomposition: A Reevaluation of “Jinteng” 金縢 and “Zhou Wu Wang you ji” 周武王有疾 / Dirk Meyer
  • 7 The Yi Zhoushu and the Shangshu: The Case of Texts with Speeches / Yegor Grebnev
  • 8 The “Harangues” (Shi 誓) in the Shangshu  / Martin Kern
  • 9 Speaking of Documents: Shu Citations in Warring States Texts / David Schaberg
  • 10 A Toiling Monarch? The “Wu yi” 無逸 Chapter Revisited / Yuri Pines
  • 11 Against (Uninformed) Idleness: Situating the Didacticism of “Wu yi” 無逸 / Michael Hunter
  • 12 “Bi shi” 粊誓, Western Zhou Oath Texts, and the Legal Culture of Early China / Maria Khayutina
  • 13 Concepts of Law in the Shangshu  / Charles Sanft
  • 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 / Robin McNeal
  • Index / Martin Kern and Dirk Meyer.