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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Honey, David B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confucius.

Philosophy, Confucian.

Chinese classics--History and criticism.

Chinese classics.

Physical Description:

volumes ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington : Academica Press, 2021-

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Confucius and a Life with Ritual

1.1. The Patron Saint of Classicists

1.2. Sources for the Life of Confucius

1.3. Confucius and a Life with Ritual

2. Confucius and the Classics

2.1. Confucius as Author and Editor

2.1.1. The Poems

2.1.2. The Documents

2.1.3. The Changes

2.1.4. The Spring and Autumn Annals

2.1.5. The Rites

2.1.6. The Music

2.2. Conclusions: Confucius's Editorial Principles

3. The Analects and the Nature of the Book in Early China

3.1. Bamboo Books and Editorial Freedom

3.2. The Analects

3.3. Conclusions

4. Confucius and the Ritual Reading of Texts, Part One

4.1. The Moral Approach to Classical Scholarship

4.2. Moral Praxis in the Analects

4.3. What Is Learning?

4.4. Ritualized Readings

4.5. "To Transmit but Not to Create"

4.6. Ritual Aspects of Commentary

4.7. Transmission Versus Innovation in the Late Classical Tradition

4.8. Confucius as Textual Commentator

5. Confucius and the Ritual Reading of Texts, Part Two

5.1. The Case of the Poems

5.2. Confucius Discourses on the Poems

5.3. Conclusions

6. Orality and Ritualized Teaching, Part One

6.2. Oral Exegesis

6.3. The Ritual of the Catechism

Table 1 Density of Oral Elements in Analects

7. Orality and Ritualized Teaching, Part Two

7.1. The Teaching Setting

7.1.1. Performative Ritual

7.1.2. Sitting in Service

7.1.3. The Rite of Standing

7.2. Harmonizing Orality and Textuality

7.3. The Oral Associations of the Title Lunyu

7.4. The Making of a Scholastic Lineage

7.5. Conclusions

8. Disciples: Faithful Transmission

8.1. Masters and Disciples

8.2. Passing the Mantle

8.3. Two Faithful Transmitters

8.4. Zengzi

8.4.1. The Zengzi in Eighteen Sections

8.4.2. The Classic of Filial Piety

8.4.3. The Great Learning

8.5. Zixia

8.6. Zixia and the Genre of the Section and Line Commentary

8.7. Conclusions

9. Zisi and the Preparation for Hermeneutics

9.1. The Family Business

9.2. The Application of the Inner

9.3. The Zisi Chapters in the Records of Ritualists

9.4. Doubting the Zisi Tradition

9.5. The Four Books Version of the Application of the Inner

9.6. Conclusions

10. Mencius and the Classics in the Service of Exemplar Historiography

10.1. The Second Sage and Confucian Discipleship

10.2. The Life and Works of Mencius

10.3. "Private Improvement" as Self-Cultivation

10.4. Use of the Documents

10.5. Use of the Poems

10.6. Conclusions

11. Xunzi and the Culmination of Confucian Transmission in the Zhou

11.1. Xunzi's Reputation in Comparison to Mencius

11.2. The Life and Works of Xunzi

11.3. Xunzi's Place in the Confucian Scholastic Lineage

11.4. Xunzi and the Classics

11.5. Use of the Poems

11.6. The Rites and Classical Masters

11.7. 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:

1268129605

Publisher Number:

99989233553