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Author Goodman, Howard L

Title Xun Xu and the politics of precision in third-century AD China / by Howard L. Goodman
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 414 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; v. 95
Sinica Leidensia ; v. 95
Contents Introduction: the Zhengsheng mode -- The Xuns of Yingyin and Luoyang -- Xun Xu's first posts, ca. 248-265 -- Aesthetics and precision in court ritual songs, ca. 266-272 -- Commandeering staff and proclaiming precision, ca. 273-274 -- A martinet of melody, ca. 274-277 -- A new day, new antiquities, new factions, ca. 277-284 -- "They've stolen my Phoenix pool", 284-89 and beyond
Summary "This biography of the court scholar Xun Xu explores central areas of intellectual life in third-century China - court lyrics, music, metrology, pitch systems, archeology, and historiography. It clarifies the relevant source texts in order to reveal fierce debates. Besides solving technical puzzles about the material details of court rites, the book unfolds factional struggles that developed into scholarly ones. Xun's opponents were major figures like Zhang Hua and Zhi Yu. Xun Xu's overall approach to antiquity and the derivation of truth made appeals to an idealized Zhou for authority. Ultimately, Xun's precision and methods cost him both reputation and court status. The events mark a turning point in which ideals were moving away from such court constructs toward a relatively more philosophical antiquarianism and towards new terms and genres of self-expression."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-395) and index
Notes Print version record
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Subject Historians -- China -- Biography
Scholars -- China -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY.
Historians
Intellectual life
Jin Dynasty (China : 265-419)
Politics and government
Scholars
Geistesleben
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Hof.
Geistesleben.
SUBJECT China -- Intellectual life -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024141
China -- Politics and government -- 220-589. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024157
China -- History -- Jin dynasty, 265-419. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024048
China -- History -- Three kingdoms, 220-265. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024045
Subject China
China
China.
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004190214
900419021X
1283039141
9781283039147