Witchcraft and the rise of the first Confucian empire / Liang Cai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cai, Liang, 1977-

Series:

SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confucianism--China--History.

Confucianism.

Witchcraft--China--History.

Witchcraft.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]

Summary:

"Contests long-standing claims that Confucianism came to prominence under China's Emperor Wu"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Charts and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Numbers as Narrative and as Method

Polyphonic Voices and Retrospective Constructions

Who Were the Confucians?

Summary of Chapters

Chapter One: Minority as the Protagonists: Revisiting Ru 儒 (Confucians)(Confucians) and Their Colleagues under Emperor Wu (141-87 BCE) of the Han

Ru, a Minority Group

Backgrounds of Eminent Officials

Principles of Hierarchy

Where Were the Ru, the Huang-Lao Followers, and the Legalists?

Sima Qian's Classification of His Contemporary Officials

Reassessing the Recommendation System and the Imperial Academy

Sources of the Myth

A Displaced Chapter: "The Basic Annals of Emperor Wu" (Xiaowu benji 孝武本紀) of The Grand Scribe's Records

Manipulated Political History: "The Collective Biographies of Ru"

Chapter Two: A Class Merely on Paper: A Study of "The Collective Biographies of Ru" in The Grand Scribe's Records (Shi ji 史 )

Ru Identity Suppressed by Conflicts

Transforming "Ru" Into Confucians

Xueguan in "The Collective Biographies of Ru"

Invoking a Sacred history of Ru Officials

Genuine or Constructed History?

Constructing a Homogenous Textual Community

Representing or Producing?

Redefining the Principles of Hierarchy

Sima Qian's Representation of Officialdom under Emperor Wu

Tailoring the History

Chapter Three: An Archeology of Interpretive Schools of the Five Classics in the Western Han Dynasty

Fragmented Scholarly Lineages

Revising Sima Qian

The Emergence and Proliferation of Interpretive Schools

Continuity or Disruption

Locating the Turning Point

Chapter Four: A Reshuffle of Power: Witchcraft Scandal and the Birth of a New Class

A Fundamental Disjunction

The Rise of Ru Officials

Witchcraft Scandal and the Birth of a New Class.

Chapter Five: Begin in the Middle: Who Entrusted Ru with Political Power?

Huo Guang's Dictatorship and Ru Discourse

Techniques of the Classics ( Jingsu 經 ) and Legitimacy of the Throne

Ru Officials Under Huo Guang and Emperor Xuan

Moral Cosmology and Emperor xuan

Who Entrusted Ru with Political Power?

Conclusion

Ru Before the Rise of the Ru Empire

Recruitment System of the Han Empire Revisited

Appendix: Major Official Titles of the Western Han Dynasty

Notes

Bibliography

Sources in Western Languages

Chinese and Japanese Sources

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438448510

1438448511

OCLC:

892161299

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32987 hdl