Foundations of Confucian thought : intellectual life in the Chunqiu period (722-453 B.C.E.) / Yuri Pines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pines, Yuri.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Intellectual life--To 221 B.C.

China.

China--History--Spring and Autumn period, 722-481 B.C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This ambitious work focuses on the world of Chinese thought during the two and a half centuries directly preceding and partly overlapping the time of Confucius. Ideas developed by Chunqiu statesmen and thinkers formed the intellectual milieu of Confucius and his disciples and contributed directly to the intellectual flowering of the Zhanguo (Warring States) era (453-221 B.C.E.), the formative period of the Chinese intellectual tradition. This study is the first attempt to systematically reconstruct major intellectual trends in pre-Confucian China. Foundations of Confucian Thought is based on an exploration of the Zuo zhuan, the largest pre-imperial historical text. Relying on meticulous textual and linguistic analysis, Yuri Pines argues that hundreds of the speeches of Chunqiu statesmen recorded in the Zuo zhuan were not invented by the compiler of the treatise but reproduced from earlier sources, thus making it an authentic reflection of the Chunqiu intellectual tradition. By tracing changes in ideas and concepts throughout the Chunqiu period, Pines reconstructs the dynamics of contemporary political and ethical discourse, distilling major intellectual impulses that Chunqiu thinkers bequeathed to their Zhanguo descendants.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Notes on Translation, Terms, and Quotations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Sources of Chunqiu Thought

Chapter 2. Heaven and Man Part Ways: Changing Attitudes Toward Divine Authority

Chapter 3. The Universal Panacea: Ritual and Preserving Hierarchical Order

Chapter 4. The World Falls Apart: A Futile Search for International Order

Chapter 5. When a Minister Mounts the Ruler: Chunqiu Views of Loyalty

Chapter 6. Nobility of Blood and Spirit: Chunqiu Ethical Thought

Chapter 7. The Chunqiu Legacy

Appendix 1: Grammatical Change in the Zuo: Case Studies of the "Yu" and "Qi" Particles

Appendix 2: Zhanguo Data in the Zuo

Appendix 3: Comparing Scribal Accounts in the Zuo

Appendix 4: Spurious Speeches and Interpolations in the Zuo

Notes

List of Chunqiu Personalities

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-372) and index.

ISBN:

9780824862572

0824862570

9780585463520

0585463522

OCLC:

614536853