Writing and authority in early China
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Writing and authority in early China
(SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture)
State University of New York Press, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the foundation of imperial authority. Its central theme is the emergence of this body of writings as the textual double of the state, and of the text-based sage as the double of the ruler. The book examines the full range of writings employed in early China, such as divinatory records, written communications with ancestors, government documents, the collective writings of philosophical and textual traditions, speeches attributed to historical figures, chronicles, verse anthologies, commentaries, and encyclopedic compendia. Lewis shows how these writings served to administer populations, control officials, form new social groups, invent new models of authority, and create an artificial language whose mastery generated power and whose graphs became potent objects. Writing and Authority in Early China traces the enterprise of creating a parallel reality within texts that depicted the entire world. These texts provided models for the invention of a world empire, and one version ultimately became the first state canon of imperial China. This canon served to perpetuate the dream and the reality of the imperial system across the centuries.
目次
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Powers of Writing
Writing and the Formation of the Chinese Empire
1. WRITING THE STATE
The Archaic Background
Laws and Registers
Reports, Tallies, and Seals
Writing and the King
The Offices of Zhou
Conclusion
2. WRITING THE MASTERS
Scholarly Texts
Scholarly Traditions and the State
Social and Economic Bases of the Traditions
The Master as Model
Conclusion
3. WRITING THE PAST
The Past in Speeches
The Past in Political Philosophy
The Past in Cosmogony
The Past in Chronicle
Conclusion
4. WRITING THE SELF
Composing the Odes
Speaking through the Odes
The Odes as Proof and Sanction
Anthology and Authorship
Conclusion
5. THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF WRITING
The Mythology of Fu Xi
The Mythology of the Duke of Zhou
The Mythology of Confucius
Conclusion
6. THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OF WRITING
Between Divination and Philosophy
The Natural Philosophy of Signs
Images and Writing
Numbers and Writing
Conclusion
7. THE ENCYCLOPEDIC EPOCH
Totality and Truth
Canon and Commentary
State-Sponsored Compendia
Sima Qian and Universal History
Sima Xiangru and Universal Poetry
The Liu Family and the Universal Library
Conclusion
8. THE EMPIRE OF WRITING
Establishment of the Canon
Triumph of the Canon
Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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