The Commentarial Transformation of the Spring and Autumn

Informationen zum Autor Newell Ann Van Auken teaches in the Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Iowa. Klappentext Shows how the text evolved from a non-narrative historical record into a Confucian classic. The Spring and Autumn is among the earliest surviving Chinese historical records, covering the period 722-479 BCE. It is a curious text: the canonical interpretation claims that it was composed by Confucius and embodies his moral judgments, but this view appears to be contradicted by the brief and dispassionate records themselves. Newell Ann Van Auken addresses this puzzling discrepancy through an examination of early interpretations of the Spring and Autumn , and uncovers a crucial missing link in two sets of commentarial remarks embedded in the Zuo Tradition . These embedded commentaries do not seek moral judgments in the Spring and Autumn, but instead interpret its records as produced by a historiographical tradition that was governed by rules related to hierarchy and ritual practice. Van Auken's exploration of the Zuo Tradition and other early commentaries sheds light on the transformation of the Spring and Autumn from a simple, non-narrative historical record into a Confucian classic.

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• Authors: Newell Ann van Auken, Newell Ann van van Auken, Newell Ann Van Auken, Van Auken Newell Ann
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781438463001
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-6300-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: SUNY Series in Chinese Philoso; Suny Chinese Philosophy and Cu; SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, Asia, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Asia / China, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, RELIGION / Confucianism, Historiography, Literary studies: general, Asian History, Literature: history and criticism, Confucianism