Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy - Studies in the Composition and Thought of the Shangshu (Classic of Documents)

Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy. explores the composition, language, thought, and early history of the Shangshu (Classic of Documents), showing its texts as dynamic cultural products that expressed and shaped the political and intellectual discourses of different times and communities.

About the author

Martin Kern, Ph.D. (1996) is Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. His publications include The Stele Inscriptions of Ch'in Shih-huang: Text and Ritual in Early Chinese Imperial Representation (American Oriental Society, 2000) and Text and Ritual in Early China (ed., Univ. of Washington Press, 2005).

Dirk Meyer, PhD. (2008) is Associate Professor of Chinese Philosophy, and Fellow of The Queen's College, University of Oxford. He publishes on meaning production and the history of thought. His monograph, Philosophy on Bamboo, appeared with Brill in 2012.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.2017
• EAN: 9789004343498
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34349-8
• No. of pages: 514
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 871 g
• Series: Studies in the History of Chin
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions