Statecraft and classical learning [electronic resource] : the Rituals of Zhou in East Asian history / edited by Benjamin A. Elman, Martin Kern.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern -- Part I. Early China. The Zhouli as constitutional text / David Schaberg -- Offices of writing and reading in the Rituals of Zhou / Martin Kern -- The many dukes of Zhou in early sources / Michael Nylan -- Centering the realm: Wang Mang, the Zhouli, and early Chinese statecraft / Michael Puett -- Zheng Xuan's commentary on the Zhouli / Andrew H. Plaks -- Part II. Medieval China. The role of the Zhouli in seventh- and eighth-century civil administrative traditions / David McMullen -- Wang Anshi and the Zhouli / Peter K. Bol -- Tension and balance: changes of constitutional schemes in Southern Song commentaries on the Rituals of Zhou / Jaeyoon Song -- Part III. Early modern East Asia. Tokugawa approaches to the Rituals of Zhou: the late Mito School and "feudalism" / Kate Wildman Nakai -- Yun Hyu and the search for dominance: a seventeenth-century Korean reading of the Offices of Zhou and the Rituals of Zhou / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- The story of a chapter: changing views of the "Artificer's Record" ("Kaogong ji") and the Zhouli / Benjamin A. Elman -- Part IV. Modern China. The Zhouli as the late Qing path to the future / Rudolf G. Wagner -- Denouement: some conclusions about the Zhouli / Rudolf G. Wagner.

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