A history of Chinese classical scholarship / David B. Honey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Honey, David B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature.

China--Civilization--221 B.C.-960 A.D.

China.

Civilization.

Chinese literature--221 B.C.-960 A.D--History and criticism.

Chinese classics--History and criticism.

Chinese classics.

Philosophy, Confucian.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

volumes ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington : Academica Press, 2021-

Summary:

Volume II of David B. Honey's comprehensive history of Chinese thought covers a vital 500-year stretch in China's history, from national unification in 221 BCE to the first post-imperial fragmentation into rival northern and southern polities. This volume discusses the reconstitution of the classics after the textual devastation wrought by the policies of the First Emperor of Qin, who destroyed many of them, and their eventual canonization by the crown during the Western Han period. Honey also examines the professionalization of Chinese classical scholarship as a state-sponsored enterprise, whereby private masters gave way to tenured academicians who specialized in single classical works. This volume also covers the development of various subgenres in the discipline of philology by the three great Eastern Han classicists Liu Xiang in textual criticism, Xu Shen in lexicography, and the polymath Zheng Xuan in the exegesis of virtually all the classics. Honey concludes with an examination of Zheng Xuan as the inspiration for other exegetical modes to explain textual complexities following this era.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Qin Disruption and Legacy

1.1. Traditional Views on the Qin

1.2. The Burning of the Books

1.3. Erudites

1.4. Unification of the Script

ch. Two Pre-Canonical Confucians: Early Han Classical Thinkers and Advisors

2.1. Shusun Tong: From Rite to Text

2.2. Lu Jia: Heaven and Earth in Resonance

2.3. Jia Yi: Teacher of Classics

2.4. Han Ying: Exoteric Textual Critic and Esoteric Interpreter

ch. Three The Course of Canonization and Universal Synthesizers in Thought and History

3.1. The Need for Hermeneutics in the Early Han

3.2. Gongyang's Commentary and Intellectual Currents during the Early Han

3.3. The Course of Canonization

3.4. Dong Zhongshu and Confucian Classicism

3.4.1. Dong Zhongshu as Classical Hermeneut

3.4.2. The Six Aims of the Spring and Autumn Annals

3.5. Sima Qian, the Historian's Records, and the "Grove of Confucians"

3.5.1. The Life of Sima Qian

3.5.2. The Historian's Records and Classical Scholarship

3.5.3. The "Grove of Confucians"

3.6. Conclusions

ch. Four Textual Criticism in the Western Han: Recovery and Reconstitution

4.1. Written Transmission: The Case of the Documents

4.1.1. The Old Text Esteemed Documents

4.1.2. The New Text Esteemed Documents

4.2. Oral Transmission: The Case of the Poems

4.3. Conclusions

pt. Two Late Western Han and Eastern Han

ch. Five Methodological Innovators and the Expansion of Philology (I): Textual Criticism

5.1. Liu Xiang and the Development of Textual Criticism and Bibliography

5.1.1. The Stone Channel Conference

5.1.2. Textual Criticism

5.1.3. The Beginnings of Bibliography

5.2. Liu Xin and the Old Text Movement

5.2.1. Liu Xin and Wang Mang

5.3. Yang Xiong

5.4. Jia Kui and the White Tiger Hall Debates

5.4.1. White Tiger Hall Debates

ch. Six Methodological Innovators and the Expansion of Philology (II): Lexicography

6.1. Ban Gu and His "Grove of Confucians"

6.1.1. The Historiography of the "Grove of Confucians"

6.2. Early Eastern Han Critics of Classical Scholarship: Huan Tan and Wang Chong

6.2.1. Huan Tan

6.2.2. Wang Chong

6.3. Xu Shen and the Culmination of Lexicography

6.3.1. Early Antecedents

6.3.2. Life of Xu Shen

6.3.3. The Shuowen Jiezi Dictionary

ch. Seven Methodological Innovators and the Expansion of Philology (III)

7.1. He Xiu and the Last Flame of New Text Classicism

7.2. Ma Rong and Other Old Text Masters

7.3. Zheng Xuan and the Synthesis of Old and New Text Learning

7.3.1. Historical Evaluation

7.3.2. Life and Works

7.3.3. Commentary

7.4. Conclusions for Methodological Innovators and the Expansion of Philology (I, II, and III)

ch. Eight Three Kingdoms and the Prelude to Hermeneutics

8.1. Wang Su and the Continuation of Philology

8.1.1. Du Yu and Annotating Zuo's Commentary

8.2. The Metaphysical Turn of Confucian Learning

8.2.1. He Yan and Exegesis of the Analects

8.2.2. Wang Bi and the Metaphysical Turn in Classical Exegesis

8.2.3. Wang Bi's Exegetical Works

8.3. Conclusions

ch. Nine Western Jin and the Imperial Sponsorship of Classical Scholarship

9.1. Stone Classics

9.2. Imperial Editions of the Four Categories of Books

9.3. Imperial Editing of Excavated Manuscripts

9.3.1. The Presentation of a "Psuedo" Kong Anguo Edition of the Esteemed Documents

9.4. Classical Scholarship during the Jin: The "Grove of Confucians"

9.5. Ritual Reforms During the Jin

9.6. Three Representative Classicists

9.6.1. GanBao

9.6.2. Guo Pu

9.6.3. Fan Ning

9.7. Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Zhou : Confucius, the six classics, and scholastic transmission.

Qin, Han, Wei, Jin : canon and commentary.

ISBN:

9781680539608

1680539604

9781680539615

1680539612

OCLC:

1184099437

Publisher Number:

99989036722