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Author Warner, Ding Xiang

Title Transmitting Authority : Wang Tong (ca. 584-617) and the Zhongshuo in Medieval China's Manuscript Culture
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (237 pages)
Series Sinica Leidensia
Sinica Leidensia
Contents Acknowledgments; Notes to the Reader; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1; The Transmission History of the Zhongshuo, Seventh through Eleventh Centuries; IThe Contents of the Received Zhongshuo; IIAppendices to the Received Zhongshuo; IIIThe First Shaping of the Zhongshuo; IVThe Zhongshuo during the Tang Dynasty; VThe Shaping of the Zhongshuo -- In the Song Dynasty and Since; Chapter 2; Features, Problems, and Puzzles in the Received Zhongshuo Features, Problems, and Puzzles in the Zhongshuo; IFormat Types; IIStyles of Reference; IIIThe Growth of Wang Tong's Discipleship
ConclusionChapter 3; The Genesis of a Confucian Master's Legacy; IThe Wunderkind from Longmen; IIMan with a Charge; IIIWang Tong and His White Ox Creek Circle; IVThe White Ox Creek Circle and the Germination of the Wang Tong Myth; Chapter 4; The Cultivation of a Family Legacy; IA Grandson's Tribute: Part One; IIYang Jiong's Validation; IIIA Family Investment: Part One; IVA Grandson's Tribute: Part Two; VA Family Investment: Part Two; Chapter 5; Appropriations of the Master's Legacy; IBefore and After: Two Funerary Epitaphs for Descendants of Master Wenzhong
IISikong Tu and Pi Rixiu in the Days of the Dying TangIIIRestoring the Lost; IVWang Tong in Popular Literature; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
Summary Transmitting Authority reveals the interdependence between the textual and social history of the Zhongshuo and the rise and fall of the cultural currency of Wang Tong (ca. 584-617), a.k.a. Master Wenzhong, whose teachings this work purports to record
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Wang, Tong, 584-617.
Wang, Tong, 584-617. Wenzhongzi Zhong shuo -- Criticism, Textual
SUBJECT Wang, Tong, 584-617 fast
Wenzhongzi Zhong shuo (Wang, Tong) fast
Subject PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
Philosophy & Religion.
Philosophy.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004276338
9004276335
1306858259
9781306858250
9789004273214
9004273212