Statecraft and classical learning
Subtitle: the Rituals of Zhou in East Asian history
By: edited by Benjamin A. Elman, Martin Kern.
Contributors: Elman, Benjamin A., 1946-; Kern, Martin.
Series: Studies in the history of Chinese texts -- v. 1; Studies in the history of Chinese texts -- v. 1.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9789004177499; 9789004180918
Subjects: Zhou li; China -- Politics and government; East Asia -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-422) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern; title: Part I. Early China. The Zhouli as constitutional text / David Schaberg; title: Offices of writing and reading in the Rituals of Zhou / Martin Kern; title: The many dukes of Zhou in early sources / Michael Nylan; title: Centering the realm: Wang Mang, the Zhouli, and early Chinese statecraft / Michael Puett; title: Zheng Xuan's commentary on the Zhouli / Andrew H. Plaks; title: Part II. Medieval China. The role of the Zhouli in seventh- and eighth-century civil administrative traditions / David McMullen; title: Wang Anshi and the Zhouli / Peter K. Bol; title: Tension and balance: changes of constitutional schemes in Southern Song commentaries on the Rituals of Zhou / Jaeyoon Song; title: Part III. Early modern East Asia. Tokugawa approaches to the Rituals of Zhou: the late Mito School and "feudalism" / Kate Wildman Nakai; title: 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; title: The story of a chapter: changing views of the "Artificer's Record" ("Kaogong ji") and the Zhouli / Benjamin A. Elman; title: Part IV.  Modern China. The Zhouli as the late Qing path to the future / Rudolf G. Wagner; title: Denouement: some conclusions about the Zhouli / Rudolf G. Wagner.