Title Buried ideas : legends of abdication and ideal government in early Chinese bamboo-slip manuscripts / Sarah Allan

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 372 pages) Series SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture. Contents History and historical legend -- The Chu-script bamboo-slip manuscripts -- Advocating abdication : Tang Yú Zhi Dao, "The way of Tang Yao and Yú Shun" -- Tang Yú Zhi Dao : translation and Chinese edition -- The Zigao and the nature of early Confucianism -- Zigao : translation and Chinese edition -- Rongchengshi : abdication and utopian vision -- Rongchengshi : translation and Chinese edition -- The Bao Xun : obtaining the center to become king -- Bao Xun : translation and Chinese edition -- Afterthoughts Summary "Four Warring States texts discovered during the late twentieth-century challenge longstanding understandings of Chinese intellectual history. The discovery of previously unknown philosophical texts from the Axial Age is revolutionizing our understanding of Chinese intellectual history. Buried Ideas presents and discusses four texts found on brush-written slips of bamboo and their seemingly unprecedented political philosophy. Written in the regional script of Chu during the Warring States period (475-221 BCE), all of the works discuss Yao's abdication to Shun and are related to but differ significantly from the core texts of the classical period, such as the Mencius and Zhuangzi. Notably, these works evince an unusually meritocratic stance, and two even advocate abdication over hereditary succession as a political ideal. Sarah Allan includes full English translations and her own modern-character editions of the four works examined: Tang Yú zhi dao, Zi Gao, Rongchengshi, and Bao xun. In addition, she provides an introduction to Chu-script bamboo-slip manuscripts and the complex issues inherent in deciphering them"--Publisher's website Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Texts written by and large in English, but occassionally in Chinese Print version record Subject Ideals (Philosophy) -- Political aspects -- China -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources Merit (Ethics) -- Political aspects -- China -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources Political science -- China -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources Manuscripts, Chinese. Chinese language -- To 600 -- Texts HISTORY -- Asia -- China. Chinese language Intellectual life Kings and rulers -- Abdication Manuscripts, Chinese Political science Politics and government Bambusinschrift Herrschaftssystem Ideal Streitende Reiche Politische Philosophie Politisk filosofi -- historia. Kinesiska handskrifter. SUBJECT China -- History -- Warring States, 403-221 B.C. -- Sources China -- Politics and government -- To 221 B.C. -- Sources China -- Kings and rulers -- Abdication -- History -- Sources China -- Intellectual life -- To 221 B.C. -- Sources Subject China Genre/Form History Sources Texts Form Electronic book LC no. 2014041449 ISBN 9781438457796 1438457790

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