In pursuit of the great peace : Han Dynasty classicism and the making of early medieval literati culture / Zhao Lu.

Author
Zhao, Lu, 1985- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2019]
  • ©2019
Description
xxi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "Through an examination of the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, Zhao Lu describes the transformation of literati culture that occurred during the Han Dynasty. Driven by anxiety over losing the mandate of Heaven, the imperial court encouraged classicism in order to establish the Great Peace and follow Heaven's will. But instead of treating the literati as puppets of competing and imagined lineages, Zhao uses sociological methods to reconstruct their daily lives and to show how they created their own thought by adopting, modifying, and opposing the work of their contemporaries and predecessors. The literati who served as bureaucrats in the first century BCE gradually became classicists who depended on social networking as they traveled to study the classics. By the second century CE, classicism had dissolved in this traveling culture and the literari began to expand the corpus of knowledge beyond the accepted canon. Thus, far from being static, classicism in Han China was full of innovation, and ultimately gave birth to both literary writing and religious Daoism"-- Provided by publisher.
    Notes
    Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Pennsylvania, 2013.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-312) and index.
    Contents
    • Toward a zeal for classicism: intellectual transitions from 74 B.C. to A.D. 9 China
    • The conflation between heaven and classics: the rise of apocrypha (chenwei)
    • Apocrypha, Confucius, and monarchy in Emperor Ming's reign (A.D. 58-75)
    • Finding teachers vs. making friends: the gradual departure from classicism in the first two centuries A.D.
    • The radical and the conservative: Zheng Xuan, He Xiu, the scripture of the great peace, and their stances on the classics.
    • The conflation between heaven and classics: the rise of apocrypha (chenwei 讖緯)
    ISBN
    • 9781438474915 ((hardcover))
    • 1438474911 ((hardcover))
    • 9781438474922 ((paperback))
    • 143847492X
    LCCN
    2018035997
    OCLC
    1078730038
    Other standard number
    • 40029229710
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