The Great Commentary on the Documents Classic / Shangshu Dazhuan尚書大傳.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lin, Fan.

Contributor:

Vankeerberghen, Griet.

Nylan, Michael.

Plaks, Andrew.

Series:

Classics of Chinese Thought Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shu jing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2025.

Summary:

An early commentary on one of the Chinese Five ClassicsThe Documents classic (Shangshu) was central to the political life of imperial China. This owed much to the lively commentarial activity surrounding the text in the first two centuries BCE. The Great Commentary serves as a lens on this commentarial work and reveals how the Documents classic was used to provide answers to pressing societal questions of the time. In this first English translation of the Great Commentary, Fan Lin and Griet Vankeerberghen engage with the historical realities that produced the work. They explore the complex relationship between the Documents classic and its commentarial traditions at a time when neither classic nor commentary had acquired fixed form. They view Master Fu (260?–161? BCE), the Han court academician to whom the Great Commentary is traditionally ascribed, not as the text's author but rather as the figure who lent his authority to subsequent generations of Documents scholars. Lin and Vankeerberghen also trace how late imperial scholars reconstructed the text largely from fragments in collectanea. With facing pages of Chinese and English text, this volume provides a comprehensive introduction and detailed annotation that reveal the work's relevance to law, prognostication, and politics, along with its value as an important source for the study of the classical tradition and of early Chinese history.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Conventions

Chronology of Dynasties

Introduction

The Great Commentary on the Documents Classic

1. Traditions on Tang

1.1 Canon of Yao

2. Traditions On Yu

2.1 Nine Offers

2.2 Gaoyao's Counsel

3. Traditions On Yu and Xia (Continued)

3.1 Tribute of Yu

3.2 Oath at Gan

4. Traditions On Yin

4.1 Proclamation of the Supreme Lord

4.2 Tang's Oath

4.3 Pangeng

4.4 Charge to Yue

4.5 Gaozong's Supplementary Sacrifice

4.6 Admonitions to Gaozong

4.7 The Prince of the West Attacks Qi

5. Traditions On Zhou

5.1 Great Oath

5.2 Success through Battle

5.3 Great Plan

5.4 Great Proclamation

5.5 Metal Coffer

5.6 Charge to Prince Wei

5.7 Praising the Millet

5.8 Proclamation to Kang

5.9 Proclamation on Drink

5.10 Catalpa Wood

5.11 Proclamation of/to Shao

5.12 Proclamation on Luo

5.13 Many Officers

5.14 Do Not Slack

5.15 King Cheng's Government

5.16 Proclamation at Yan

5.17 Many Regions

5.18 Testamentary Charge / 5.19 King Kang's Proclamation

5.20 Charge to Jiong

5.21 Oath at Xian

5.22 Punishments of Fu

6. Principal Teachings

6.1 Principal Teachings, Part 1

6.2 Principal Teachings, Part 2

7. Tradition On The Great Plan'S Five Phases

7.1 Tradition on the Great Plan's Five Phases, Part 1

7.2 Tradition on the Great Plan's Five Phases, Part 2

7.3 Tradition on the Great Plan's Five Phases, Part 3

Appendix: Chapter Titles in the Great Commentary and in the Documents

Bibliography

Place Name Index

Personal Name Index

General Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780295753461

0295753463

OCLC:

1493602712