Statecraft and classical learning : the Rituals of Zhou in East Asian history / edited by Benjamin A. Elman, Martin Kern.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elman, Benjamin A., 1946-

Kern, Martin

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Studies in the history of Chinese texts ; 1.

Studies in the history of Chinese texts ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zhou li.

China--Politics and government.

China.

Politics and government.

East Asia--Politics and government.

East Asia.

Physical Description:

vi, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Contents:

Introduction / Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern

Part I. Early China. The Zhouli as constitutional text / David Schaberg

Offices of writing and reading in the Rituals of Zhou / Martin Kern

The many dukes of Zhou in early sources / Michael Nylan

Centering the realm: Wang Mang, the Zhouli, and early Chinese statecraft / Michael Puett

Zheng Xuan's commentary on the Zhouli / Andrew H. Plaks

Part II. Medieval China. The role of the Zhouli in seventh- and eighth-century civil administrative traditions / David McMullen

Wang Anshi and the Zhouli / Peter K. Bol

Tension and balance: changes of constitutional schemes in Southern Song commentaries on the Rituals of Zhou / Jaeyoon Song

Part III. Early modern East Asia. Tokugawa approaches to the Rituals of Zhou: the late Mito School and "feudalism" / Kate Wildman Nakai

Yun Hyu and the search for dominance: a seventeenth-century Korean reading of the Offices of Zhou and the Rituals of Zhou / JaHyun Kim Haboush

The story of a chapter: changing views of the "Artificer's Record" ("Kaogong ji") and the Zhouli / Benjamin A. Elman

Part IV. Modern China. The Zhouli as the late Qing path to the future / Rudolf G. Wagner

Denouement: some conclusions about the Zhouli / Rudolf G. Wagner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789004177499

9004177493

9789004180918

9004180915

OCLC:

457129697

Publisher Number:

99935705394