Buried ideas : legends of abdication and ideal government in early Chinese bamboo-slip manuscripts / / Sarah Allan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460595303321
• Autore: Allan Sarah
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-4384-5779-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (388 p.)
• Collana: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
• Disciplina: 931/.03
• Soggetti: Ideals (Philosophy) - Political aspects - China - History - To 1500; Merit (Ethics) - Political aspects - China - History - To 1500; Political science - China - History - To 1500; Manuscripts, Chinese; Chinese language - To 600; Electronic books.; China History Warring States, 403-221 B.C Sources; China Politics and government To 221 B.C Sources; China Kings and rulers Abdication History Sources; China Intellectual life To 221 B.C Sources
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: History and Historical Legend; Dynastic Cycle and the Conflicting Principles of Rule by Virtue and Rule by Hereditary Right; The Collapse of the Hereditary Aristocracy in the Eastern Zhou Period; The Question of Monarchism; The Legend of Yao and Shun and the Function of Historical Legend in Transmitted Texts; The Qin Watershed; Chapter Three: The Chu-script Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts; The Formation of Multi-chapter Texts: A Hypothesis; Bamboo-slip Scrolls; Wood Tablets; Silk Scrolls; The Development of Stable TextsGuodian Tomb One; The Identity of the Tomb Occupant; The Guodian Laozi and Textual History; Other Manuscripts from Guodian Tomb One; The Shanghai Museum ; Collection; Guojiagang 家崗 Tomb One; Female Literacy in the Warring States Period; The Contents of the Manuscripts in the Shanghai Museum Collection; The Tsinghua University Collection; The Authenticity of the Shanghai and Tsinghua Bamboo-slip Manuscripts; Preparing the Official Publications; Transmission of Texts; Deciphering Chu Graphs; Chapter Four: Advocating Abdication: Tang Yú zhi dao 唐 之 , "The Way of Tang Yao 唐堯 and Yú Shun "The Abdication Legend; The Problem of Identification with a Philosophical School; The Manuscript; Translation; I (Slips 1-3; 22/1-9); II (Slips 22/10-25/23); III (Slips 25/24-27/14); IV (Slips 27/15-28; 4/1); V (Slips 4/2-6/15); VI (Slips 6/16-10/9); VII (Slip 10/10-end; 12-13; 18/1-19/25); VIII (Slips 19/26-21; 11; 14/1-2); IX (Slips 14/3-15/22); X (Slips 15/23-17; 29); Abdication as the Fullest Expression of Humaneness and Rightness; Loving Kin and Honoring Worthies; The Six Thearchs; The Sage Ruler and the Natural Order (mingThe Abdication of King Kuai of Yan; Analysis; Conclusion; Tang Yú zhi dao 唐 之 : Translation and Chinese Edition; Key to the Edition; I. The Way of Tang Yao and Yu Shun (Slips 1-3; 22/1-9); II. Yao and Shun (Slips 22/10-25/23); III. Abdication in old age (Slips 25/24-27/14); IV. Record of Yú (Shun) (Slips 27/15-28; 4/1); V. Sages and ruler (Slips 4/2-6/15); VI. Filial piety and abdication (Slips 6/16-10/9); VII. Xia (Yu) (Slip 10/10-end; 12-13; 18/1-19/25); VIII. Transforming the people (Slip 19/26-Slip 21; 11; 14/1-2); IX. (Slips 14/3-15/22); X. (Slips 15/23-end of 17 29); Abbreviations; Chapter Five: The Zigao 子羔 and the Nature of Early Confucianism; Zigao; The Manuscript; Translation; I (Slips 9; 11top; 10; 11bottom; CUHK3; 12); II (Slips 13/15-end; 7; 33; 1/1-12); III (Slips 1; 6/1-19); IV (Slips 6/20-34; 2); V (Slips 3; 4; 5; 8/1-24); VI (Slips 8/25-39; 14); The Three Kings; The Sons of Heaven (tian zi); The Birth of Yu; Xie, the Divine Progenitor of the Shang; Hou Ji: The Divine Progenitor of the Zhou; Shun, the Son of the Music Master; Abdication; Yao's Insight and Shun's Virtue; The Importance of Humility; Shun and the Three Sons of Heaven