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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elman, Benjamin A., 1946-

Kern, Martin.

Series:

Studies in the history of Chinese texts ; v. 1.

Studies in the history of Chinese texts, 1877-9425 ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Politics and government.

China.

East Asia--Politics and government.

East Asia.

Zhou li.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (452 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Statecraft and Classical Learning is devoted to the Rituals of Zhou , one of the ancient Chinese Classics. In addition to its canonical stature in classical learning, the massive text was of unique significance to the pre-modern statecraft of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam where it served as the classical paradigm for government structure and was often invoked in movements of political reform. The present volume, with contributions from twelve leading North American, European, and East Asian scholars, is the first in any language to illuminate the Rituals in both dimensions. It presents a multi-faceted and fascinating picture of the life of the text from its inception some two millennia ago to its modern political and scholarly discourse.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-94985-3

9786612949852

90-474-3093-X

OCLC:

695988992

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004177499.i-446 DOI