UID:
almafu_9960947639402883
Format:
1 online resource (352 pages).
ISBN:
1-4384-7493-8
Series Statement:
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
Content:
"Through an examination of the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, Zhao Lu describes the transformation of literati culture that occurred during the Han Dynasty. Driven by anxiety over losing the mandate of Heaven, the imperial court encouraged classicism in order to establish the Great Peace and follow Heaven's will. But instead of treating the literati as puppets of competing and imagined lineages, Zhao uses sociological methods to reconstruct their daily lives and to show how they created their own thought by adopting, modifying, and opposing the work of their contemporaries and predecessors. The literati who served as bureaucrats in the first century BCE gradually became classicists who depended on social networking as they traveled to study the classics. By the second century CE, classicism had dissolved in this traveling culture and the literari began to expand the corpus of knowledge beyond the accepted canon. Thus, far from being static, classicism in Han China was full of innovation, and ultimately gave birth to both literary writing and religious Daoism"--
Note:
Front Matter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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Toward a Zeal for Classicism --
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The Conflation between Heaven and the Classics --
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Apocrypha, Confucius, and Monarchy in Emperor Ming’s Reign (AD 58–75) --
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Finding Teachers versus Making Friends --
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The Radical and the Conservative --
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Conclusion --
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The Chinese Classics --
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The Origin of the Old Script / New Script Controversy --
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The Contrast-Debate Model and Its Critique --
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The Assumptions of the Confucian Empire and Its Problems --
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Apocryphal Texts --
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Chen, Wei, and Apocrypha --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4384-7491-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781438474939
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