Ideology of power and power of ideology in early China / / edited by Yuri Pines, Paul R. Goldin, Martin Kern.

• Superior document: Sinica Leidensia, Volume 124
• TeilnehmendeR: Pines, Yuri,; Goldin, Paul R.,; Kern, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Sinica Leidensia ; Volume 124.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China explores ancient Chinese political thought during the centuries surrounding the formation of the empire in 221 BCE. The individual chapters examine the ideology and practices of legitimation, views of rulership, conceptualizations of ruler-minister relations, economic thought, and the bureaucratic administration of commoners. The contributors analyze the formation of power relations from various angles, ranging from artistic expression to religious ideas, political rhetoric, and administrative action. They demonstrate the interrelatedness of historiography and political ideology and show how the same text served both to strengthen the ruler’s authority and moderate his excesses. Together, the chapters highlight the immense complexity of ancient Chinese political thought, and the deep tensions running within it. Contributors include Scott Cook, Joachim Gentz, Paul R. Goldin, Romain Graziani, Martin Kern, Liu Zehua, Luo Xinhui, Yuri Pines, Roel Sterckx, and Charles Sanft.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Yuri Pines , Paul R. Goldin and Martin Kern -- Introduction / Yuri Pines -- 1 Representations of Regional Diversity during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty / Paul R. Goldin -- 2 Omens and Politics: The Zhou Concept of the Mandate of Heaven as Seen in the Chengwu 程寤 Manuscript / Luo Xinhui 羅新慧 -- 3 Long Live The King! The Ideology of Power between Ritual and Morality in the Gongyang zhuan 公羊傳 / Joachim Gentz -- 4 Language and the Ideology of Kingship in the “Canon of Yao” / Martin Kern -- 5 Monarch and Minister: The Problematic Partnership in the Building of Absolute Monarchy in the Han Feizi 韓非子 / Romain Graziani -- 6 The Changing Role of the Minister in the Warring States: Evidence from the Yanzi chunqiu 晏子春秋 / Scott Cook -- 7 Ideologies of the Peasant and Merchant in Warring States China / Roel Sterckx -- 8 Population Records from Liye: Ideology in Practice / Charles Sanft -- 9 Political and Intellectual Authority: The Concept of the “Sage-Monarch” and Its Modern Fate / Liu Zehua 劉澤華 -- Bibliography / Yuri Pines , Paul R. Goldin and Martin Kern -- Index / Yuri Pines , Paul R. Goldin and Martin Kern.