Ideology of power and power of ideology in early China
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Ideology of power and power of ideology in early China
(Sinica Leidensia, v. 124)
Brill, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China explores ancient Chinese political thought during the centuries surrounding the formation of the empire in 221 BCE. The individual chapters examine the ideology and practices of legitimation, views of rulership, conceptualizations of ruler-minister relations, economic thought, and the bureaucratic administration of commoners.
The contributors analyze the formation of power relations from various angles, ranging from artistic expression to religious ideas, political rhetoric, and administrative action. They demonstrate the interrelatedness of historiography and political ideology and show how the same text served both to strengthen the ruler's authority and moderate his excesses. Together, the chapters highlight the immense complexity of ancient Chinese political thought, and the deep tensions running within it.
Contributors include Scott Cook, Joachim Gentz, Paul R. Goldin, Romain Graziani, Martin Kern, Liu Zehua, Luo Xinhui, Yuri Pines, Roel Sterckx, and Charles Sanft.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
List of Contributors viii
Introduction: Ideology and Power in Early China 1
Yuri Pines
Part One: The Foundations: Unity, Heaven, and Ancestral Models
1 Representations of Regional Diversity during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty 31
Paul R. Goldin
2 Omens and Politics: The Zhou Concept of the Mandate of Heaven as Seen in the Chengwu Manuscript 49
Luo Xinhui
3 Long Live The King! The Ideology of Power between Ritual and Morality in the Gongyang zhuan 69
Joachim Gentz
4 Language and the Ideology of Kingship in the "Canon of Yao" 118
Martin Kern
Part Two: Textual Battles: Rulers, Ministers, and the People
5 Monarch and Minister: The Problematic Partnership in the Building of Absolute Monarchy in the Han Feizi 155
Romain Graziani
6 The Changing Role of the Minister in the Warring States: Evidence from the Yanzi chunqiu 181
Scott Cook
7 Ideologies of the Peasant and Merchant in Warring States China 211
Roel Sterckx
8 Population Records from Liye: Ideology in Practice 249
Charles Sanft
Epilogue: Ideological Authority in China: Past and Present
9 Political and Intellectual Authority: The Concept of the "Sage-Monarch" and Its Modern Fate 273
Liu Zehua
Bibliography 301
Index 337
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