| Description |
1 online resource (656 pages) : illustrations |
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Translations from the Asian Classics |
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Translations from the Asian classics.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Group 1. Exegetical Principles -- Group 2. Monarchical Principles -- Group 3. Regulatory Principles -- Group 4. Ethical Principles -- Group 5. Yin-Yang Principles -- Group 6. Five-Phase Principles -- Group 7. Ritual Principles -- Group 8. Heavenly Principles -- Appendix A. Biographies of the Confucian Scholars -- Appendix B. The Biography of Dong Zhongshu -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
A major resource expanding the study of early Chinese philosophy, religion, literature, and politics, this book features the first complete English-language translation of the Luxuriant Gems of the "Spring and Autumn" (Chunqiu fanlu), one of the key texts of early Confucianism. The work is often ascribed to the Han scholar and court official Dong Zhongshu, but, as this study reveals, the text is in fact a compendium of writings by a variety of authors working within an interpretive tradition that spanned several generations, depicting a utopian vision of a flourishing humanity that they believed to be Confucius's legacy to the world. The Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu) is a chronicle kept by the dukes of the state of Lu from 722 to 481 B.C.E. The Luxuriant Gems follows the interpretations of the Gongyang Commentary, whose transmitters belonged to a tradition that sought to explicate the special language of the Spring and Autumn. The Gongyang masters believed that the Spring and Autumn had been written by Confucius himself, employing subtle and esoteric phrasing to indicate approval or disapproval of important events and personages. The Luxuriant Gems augments Confucian ethical and philosophical teachings with chapters on cosmology, statecraft, and other topics drawn from contemporary non-Confucian traditions, reflecting the brilliance of intellectual life in the Han dynasty during the formative decades of the Chinese imperial state. To elucidate the text, Sarah A. Queen and John S. Major divide their translation into eight thematic sections with extensive introductions that address dating, authorship, authenticity, and the relationship between the original text and the evolving Gongyang approach |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Dong Zhongshu (195-104 B.C.E.) was a native of the kingdom of Guanquan (part of present-day Hebei Province), where at an early age he mastered the Spring and Autumn, a famous chronicle of recorded historical events. A court-appointed scholar of the Gongyang Commentary to the Spring and Autumn, he was known for his interpretations of disasters and anomalies recorded in the text. Sarah A. Queen is professor of history at Connecticut College. She is the co-translator, with John S. Major, Andrew Seth Meyer, and Harold D. Roth, of The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China and The Essential Huainanzi. John S. Major taught East Asian history at Dartmouth College. Now an independent scholar, he has published widely on various aspects of East Asian history |
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In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed September 10 2015) |
| SUBJECT |
Chun qiu fan lu (Dong, Zhongshu) fast |
| Subject |
History -- Regions and National Histories -- Asia-Pacific
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Chinese.
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Übersetzung
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Quelle
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Konfuzianismus
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Englisch
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China
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780231539616 |
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0231539614 |
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