Editor:
Paul R. Goldin
Publisher:
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date:
Aug, 2017
Abstract:
A Concise Companion to Confucius offers a succinct introduction to one of East Asia’s most widely-revered historical figures, providing essential coverage of his legacy at a manageable length. The volume embraces Confucius as philosopher, teacher, politician, and sage, and curates a collection of key perspectives on his life and teachings from a team of distinguished scholars in philosophy, history, religious studies, and the history of art. Taken together, chapters encourage specialists to read across disciplinary boundaries, provide nuanced paths of introduction for students, and engage interested readers who want to expand their understanding of the great Chinese master.
Divided into four distinct sections, the Concise Companion depicts a coherent figure of Confucius by examining his diverse representations from antiquity through to the modern world. Readers are guided through the intellectual and cultural influences that helped shape the development of Confucian philosophy and its reception among late imperial literati in medieval China. Later essays consider Confucius’s engagement with topics such as warfare, women, and Western philosophy, which remain fruitful avenues of philosophical inquiry today. The collection concludes by exploring the significance of Confucian thought in East Asia’s contemporary landscape and the major intellectual movements which are reviving and rethinking his work for the twenty-first century.
An indispensable resource, A Concise Companion to Confucius blazes an authoritative trail through centuries of scholarship to offer exceptional insight into one of history’s earliest and most influential ancient philosophers.
Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction: Confucius and Confucianism 1
Paul R. Goldin
Part I Representations of Confucius 13
1 Early Sources for Confucius 15
Michael Hunter
2 Confucius in Excavated Warring States Manuscripts 35
Scott Cook
3 The Unorthodox Master: The Serious and the Playful in Depictions of Confucius 52
Oliver Weingarten
4 Representations of Confucius in Apocrypha of the First Century CE 75
Zhao Lu
5 Visual Representations of Confucius 93
Julia K. Murray
Part II Confucian Ideas 131
6 Le in the Analects 133
Kwong-loi Shun
7 Women in the Analects 148
Anne Behnke Kinney
8 Confucius’ Elitism: The Concepts of junzi and xiaoren Revisited 164
Yuri Pines
9 Confucius and Filial Piety 185
Thomas Radice
10 The Gentleman’s Views on Warfare according to the Gongyang Commentary 208
Sarah A. Queen
11 Comparisons with Western Philosophy 229
Erin M. Cline
Part III The Legacy of Confucius in Imperial China 247
12 From Uncrowned King to the Sage of Profound Greatness: Confucius and the Analects in Early Medieval China 249
Alan K. L. Chan
13 The Reception of The Classic of Filial Piety from Medieval to Late Imperial China 268
Miaw-fen Lu 呂妙芬
14 Kongzi as the Uncrowned King in some Qing Gongyang Exegeses 286
On-cho Ng
Part IV Confucius and New Confucianisms in Modern East Asia 305
15 Confucianism, Capitalism, and Shibusawa Eiichi’s The Analects and the Abacus 307
John A. Tucker
16 Confucius in the May Fourth Era 330
Q. Edward Wang
17 New Confucianism 352
Yong Huang
Author:
Michael Ing
Publication Date:
2017
Publisher:
Oxford
Abstract:
The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought is about the necessity and value of vulnerability in human experience. In this book, Michael Ing brings early Chinese texts into dialogue with questions about the ways in which meaningful things are vulnerable to powers beyond our control, and more specifically how relationships with meaningful others might compel tragic actions.
Vulnerability is often understood as an undesirable state; invulnerability is usually preferred. While recognizing the need to reduce vulnerability in some situations, The Vulnerability of Integrity demonstrates that vulnerability is pervasive in human experience, and enables values such as morality, trust, and maturity. Vulnerability is also the source of the need for care for oneself and for others. The possibility of tragic loss fosters compassion for others as we strive to care for each other.
This book demonstrates the plurality of Confucian thought on this topic. The first two chapters describe traditional and contemporary arguments for the invulnerability of integrity in early Confucian thought. The remainder of the book focuses on neglected voices in the tradition, which argue that our concern for others can and should lead to us compromise our own integrity. In such cases, we are compelled to do something transgressive for the sake of others, and our integrity is jeopardized in the transgressive act.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Conventions
Introduction
1. The Invulnerability of Integrity: Early Texts and Commentators
2. The Invulnerability of Integrity: Contemporary Scholarship
3. The Sorrow of Regret
4. Regret, Resentment, and Transgression
5. Irresolvable Value Conflicts in a Conflictual World
6. The Conflictual World of the Sages
7. The Vulnerability of Integrity
Conclusion: The Value of Vulnerability
Bibliography
Author:
Sharon Sanderovitch
Defended:
2017
School:
UC Berkeley
Advisor:
Mark Csikszentmihalyi
Abstract:
The ruler’s body in early Chinese literature—whether silent and tranquil or bearing the scars of restless public toil; whether emanating light from the depths of the palatial chambers or displaying charisma while traversing the empire—has served as an idiom for the articulation of competing ideals of rulership, governance, and bureaucratization. This work takes the idiom of the ruler’s body and the language of imperial representation as the primary object of scrutiny. It analyzes prevalent rhetorical and literary patterns in light of observations gained in the cross-cultural study of the royal body, metaphor in political discourse, and theories of representation. In particular, I am interested in the way top-down representation, of the ruler by his officials, was conceptualized and advocated in bodily terms, giving rise to some of the most common figures in early Chinese literature. This attention to the work of language in the political discourse of the early imperial period reveals some of the unique features of Chinese theories of monarchy, and brings to light paradigms that structure the literary representation of rulers and rulership across seemingly incompatible genres.
The main texts that drive the inquiry in the three core chapters date from two middle points in the long span of the Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE): the reign of Emperor Cheng 成帝 (r. 33 – 7 BCE) in the late Western Han, and the reign of Emperor Zhang 章帝 (r. 75 – 88) in the early Eastern Han. The first chapter takes Liu Xiang’s 劉向 (79 – 8 BCE) Shui yuan 說苑 as the gate to an ongoing intertextual discourse of rulership and bureaucratization, looking in particular at metaphors that take the ruler’s body as the source domain. I show, in the second chapter, that some of the conceptual paradigms that structure such figurative constructions in the discourse of authority and delegation underlie literary strategies that support the goals of the ruler’s encomiasts. At the center of analysis in this chapter is Cui Yin’s 崔駰 (d. 92) “Four Panegyrics for the Imperial Tours” 四巡頌—a text that fell under the radar of most early-China scholars, East and West, due to a long interruption in its transmission. In the third chapter, focusing on the summaries and evaluations Ban Gu 班固 (32 – 92) had appended to the imperial chronicles of the Hanshu 漢書 (History of the Han), I argue that awareness to the poetics of praise is instrumental to the study not only of the rhetorical construction of the ruler’s body but also the language of imperial historiography.
This work thus examines the relation between metaphor and politics, body and representation, and history and praise so as to highlight features of the early Chinese discourse of rulership that will have hermeneutical and analytical value for scholars of Chinese literature, political thought, and theories of monarchy across cultures.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Body, Metaphor, and Representation
Chapter 1: Metaphors of the Body Natural—Reading Liu Xiang’s “Way of the Ruler”
Chapter 2: The Poetics of Praise—Cui Yin’s “Four Panegyrics for the Imperial Tours”
Chapter 3: Praise and Paratext—Ban Gu’s History of the Han
Bibliography
Author:
Mercedes Valmisa
Adviser:
Willard Peterson
School:
Princeton University
Defended:
2016
Abstract:
One of the major philosophical problems in Early China was the relationship between the person and the world, and in particular, how to act in relation to the world. This dissertation addresses the problem of agency in Early China, and pursues three main guiding questions: how to act efficaciously in different situations, how to cope with uncertainty and unpredictability in ordinary life, and how to achieve control and freedom.
I offer a critical and systematic analysis of an extraordinary model of successful action that I call “adaptive agency” or “adaptation” (yin 因). As opposed to other models of action attested in early texts, such as the prescriptive and the forceful, the adaptive agent necessitates great capacity of situational awareness, reflection, flexibility, and creativity in order to produce responses ad hoc: strategies of action designed for specific, non-permanent, and non-generalizable life problems. This model for choosing an action as an adjusted response to a specific situation guarantees the agent a higher success rate in his actions, let these be in political, military, professional, medical, religious, ethical or ordinary life contexts.
This dissertation is both born from a new methodological orientation and a contribution toward establishing it, by means of exemplifying how we can build meaningful critical theories in Early Chinese philosophy and intellectual history without using the obsolete hermeneutical categories of school of thought, book and author. I trace tensions and similarities in the Early Chinese approach to the problem of agency cross-textually, using a large range of textual materials and research methods. The philosophical proposal of adaptive agency is particularly suitable to this kind of methodological project, for it consistently appears across a wide variety of texts, authors, and intellectual orientations throughout the Early Chinese period, and therefore could not be studied by using the traditional hermeneutical categories.
Editor:
髙村武幸 (TAKAMURA Takeyuki)
Publisher:
六一書房
Publication Date:
September, 2017
Table of Contents:
前 言
第1 部 秦の周縁領域
渡邉 英幸 「戦国秦の国境を越えた人びと ─岳麓秦簡『為獄等状』の「邦亡」と「帰義」を中心に─」
目黒 杏子 「秦代県下の「廟」─里耶秦簡と岳麓書院蔵秦簡「秦律令」にみえる諸廟の考察─」
第2 部 漢代西北部周縁領域の考察
廣瀬 薫雄 「漢代酒泉郡表是県城遺跡を探して ─草溝井城調査記─」
青木 俊介 「漢代肩水地区A32 所在機関とその業務関係 ─肩水金関と肩水東部を中心に─」
髙村 武幸 「前漢後半期以降の河西地域に対する物資供給 ─漢代辺郡の存在意義を考える手がかりとして─」
第3 部 周縁の地域社会とその構成員
鈴木 直美 「漢代フロンティア形成者のプロフィール ─居延漢簡・肩水金関漢簡にみる卒の年齢に着目して─」
飯田 祥子 「公孫述政権の興亡 ─両漢交替期地域政権の一事例─」
鷲尾 祐子 「終の棲家 ─女性の帰属に関する試論─」
後 記
Publication Date:
Aug. 2017
Publisher:
Tokyo: Tōhō Gakkai
Table of Contents:
IKEDA Tomohisa (池田知久): Introduction
LI Ling (李零): The Revolution in Shu-shu: From Divination Using Tortoiseshells and Yarrow Stalks to Shih Methods and Selection
KUDŌ Motoo (工藤元男): Local Government Officials and Shu-shu: A View from Daybooks (Jih-shu)
TAKEDA Tokimasa (武田時昌): The Six Incurables and Four Difficulties: An Examination of the Paradigms of Chinese Medicine from the Perspective of Shu-shu Studies
KAWAHARA Hideki (川原秀城): A Third Thesis concerning Shu-shu: Is Neo-Confucianism the Study of Shu-shu?
MINAKUCHI Takuju (水口拓寿): Perceptions of “Water Quality” in Early-Ch‘ing Feng-shui Texts: An Inquiry into Shen Hao’s Ti-hsüeh
