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Witchcraft and the Rise of the First Confucian Empire /
"Contests long-standing claims that Confucianism came to prominence under China's Emperor Wu"--Provided by publisher
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- List of Charts and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Numbers as Narrative and as Method
- Polyphonic Voices and Retrospective Constructions
- Who Were the Confucians?
- Summary of Chapters
- Chapter One: Minority as the Protagonists: Revisiting Ru (Confucians)(Confucians) and Their Colleagues under Emperor Wu (141-87 BCE) of the Han
- Ru, a Minority Group
- Backgrounds of Eminent Officials
- Principles of Hierarchy
- Where Were the Ru, the Huang-Lao Followers, and the Legalists?
- Sima Qian's Classification of His Contemporary OfficialsReassessing the Recommendation System and the Imperial Academy
- Sources of the Myth
- A Displaced Chapter: The Basic Annals of Emperor Wu (Xiaowu benji) of The Grand Scribe's Records
- Manipulated Political History: The Collective Biographies of Ru
- Chapter Two: A Class Merely on Paper: A Study of The Collective Biographies of Ru in The Grand Scribe's Records (Shiji)
- Ru Identity Suppressed by Conflicts
- Transforming Ru Into Confucians
- Xueguan in The Collective Biographies of RuInvoking a Sacred history of Ru Officials
- Genuine or Constructed History?
- Constructing a Homogeneous Textual Community
- Representing or Producing?
- Redefining the Principles of Hierarchy
- Sima Qian's Representation of Officialdom under Emperor Wu
- Tailoring the History
- Chapter Three: An Archaeology of Interpretive Schools of the Five Classics in the Western Han Dynasty
- Fragmented Scholarly Lineages
- Revising Sima Qian
- The Emergence and Proliferation of Interpretive Schools
- Continuity or DisruptionLocating the Turning Point
- Chapter Four: A Reshuffle of Power: Witchcraft Scandal and the Birth of a New Class
- A Fundamental Disjunction
- The Rise of Ru Officials
- Witchcraft Scandal and the Birth of a New Class
- Chapter Five: Begin in the Middle: Who Entrusted Ru with Political Power?
- Huo Guang's Dictatorship and Ru Discourse
- Techniques of the Classics (Jingsu?) and Legitimacy of the Throne
- Ru Officials Under Huo Guang and Emperor Xuan
- Moral Cosmology and Emperor xuan
- Who Entrusted Ru with Political Power?
- ConclusionRu Before the Rise of the Ru Empire
- Recruitment System of the Han Empire Revisited
- Appendix: Major Official Titles of the Western Han Dynasty
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Sources in Western Languages
- Chinese and Japanese Sources
- Index