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Witchcraft and the rise of the first Confucian empire / Liang Cai.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culturePublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781461957577
  • 1461957575
  • 9781438448510
  • 1438448511
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Witchcraft and the rise of the first Confucian empireDDC classification:
  • 299.5/120931 23
LOC classification:
  • BL1840
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  • online - EBSCO
  • BE 8222
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Contents:
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
Summary: "Contests long-standing claims that Confucianism came to prominence under China's Emperor Wu"--Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Contests long-standing claims that Confucianism came to prominence under China's Emperor Wu"--Provided by publisher

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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

English.