Luxuriant gems of the Spring and Autumn / attributed to Dong Zhongshu ; edited and translated by Sarah A. Queen & John S. Major.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dong, Zhongshu, active 2nd century B.C., author.

Contributor:

Queen, Sarah A. (Sarah Ann), editor, translator.

Major, John S., editor, translator.

Series:

Translations from the Asian classics.

Translations from the Asian classics

Standardized Title:

Chun qiu fan lu. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confucius.

Dong, Zhongshu, active 2nd century B.C.

Dong, Zhongshu.

Philosophy, Chinese.

Philosophers.

China--Politics and government.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (700 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu) is a chronicle kept by the dukes of the state of Lu from 722 to 481 B.C.E. Luxuriant Gems of the "Spring and Autumn" (Chunqiu fanlu) follows the interpretations of the Gongyang Commentary, whose transmitters sought to explicate the special language of the Spring and Autumn. 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 spanning several generations. It depicts a utopian vision of a flourishing humanity that they believed to be Confucius's legacy to the world.The Gongyang masters thought that Confucius had written the Spring and Autumn, employing subtle phrasing to indicate approval or disapproval of important events and personages. Luxuriant Gems therefore augments Confucian ethical and philosophical teachings with chapters on cosmology, statecraft, and other topics drawn from contemporary non-Confucian traditions. A major resource, this book features the first complete English-language translation of Luxuriant Gems, divided into eight thematic sections with introductions that address dating, authorship, authenticity, and the relationship between the Spring and Autumn and the Gongyang approach. Critically illuminating early Chinese philosophy, religion, literature, and politics, this book conveys the brilliance of intellectual life in the Han dynasty during the formative decades of the Chinese imperial state.

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231539616

0231539614

OCLC:

979754205