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Author:   Benjamin Elman ,  Martin Kern
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.874kg
ISBN:  

9789004177499

ISBN 10:   9004177493
Pages:   6
Publication Date:   12 October 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Introduction - Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern Early China 1. The Zhouli as Constitutional Text - David Schaberg 2. Offices of Writing and Reading in the Rituals of Zhou - Martin Kern 3. The Many Dukes of Zhou in Early Sources - Michael Nylan 4. Centering the Realm: Wang Mang, the Zhouli, and Early Chinese Statecraft - Michael Puett 5. Zheng Xuan’s Commentary on the Zhouli - Andrew H. Plaks II. Medieval China 6. The Role of the Zhouli in Seventh- and Eighth-Century Civil Administrative Traditions - David McMullen 7. Wang Anshi and the Zhouli - Peter K. Bol 8. Tension and Balance: Changes of Constitutional Schemes in Southern Song Commentaries on the Rituals of Zhou - Jaeyoon Song III. Early Modern East Asia 9. Tokugawa Approaches to the Rituals of Zhou: The Late Mito School and Feudalism” - Kate Wildman Nakai 10. Yun Hyu and the Search for Dominance: A Seventeenth-Century Korean Reading of the Offices of Zhou and the Rituals of Zhou - JaHyun Kim Haboush 11. The Story of a Chapter: Changing Views of the “Artificer’s Record” (“Kaogong ji”) and the Zhouli - Benjamin A. Elman IV. Modern China 12. The Zhouli as the Late Qing Path to the Future - Rudolf G. Wagner 13. Denouement: Some Conclusions about the Zhouli - Rudolf G. Wagner Bibliography Index

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'Although the quality of all the essays is quite good, those that focus on the late imperial period and beyond China are particularly effective in emphasizing the Zhouli's importance to Chinese notions of statecraft.' Keith N. Knapp, The Journal of Asian Studies, 70/1 (2011)

'Although the quality of all the essays is quite good, those that focus on the late imperial period and beyond China are particularly effective in emphasizing the Zhouli's importance to Chinese notions of statecraft.' Keith N. Knapp, The Journal of Asian Studies, 70/1 (2011)

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Benjamin Elman, Ph.D. (1980) in Oriental Studies, University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University. He has published widely on Chinese intellectual history, the history of education, and the history of science in China. Martin Kern, Ph.D. (1996) in Chinese Studies, Cologne University (Germany), is Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He has published extensively in the fields of ancient Chinese literature, history, and religion.

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