Creating Confucian authority : the field of ritual learning in early China to 9 CE / by Robert L. Chard
- Bib ID:
- 8613342
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Chard, Robert Lawrence, author
- Description:
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
- ©2021
- x, 172 pages ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9789004461918 (hardback)
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9789004465312 (adobe pdf)
- Series:
- Sinica Leidensia ; v. 152. 0169-9563
- Summary:
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"Ritual Learning was the engine that drove the cultural dominance of Confucianism. In early China, Confucian officials derive political influence from the sub-discipline of ritual. Imperial regimes establish legitimacy through their state religion, headed by cults to ancestors and to deities of Heaven and Earth. Ritual Learning allows Confucian-educated officials to assert control over these cults, and reshape dynastic legitimacy according to their own design, claimed to derive from the sage kings of antiquity. Confucianism is not just a philosophical and intellectual tradition. Through its ritual tradition, it has cultural and political power, like that of a religion, allowing it to perpetuate itself successfully over time, even in contemporary China"--
- Full contents:
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- The golden age of ritual : the world of the Zuo zhuan, and the analects (Lun yu) on Confucius
- The ritual culture of the Ru : ritual learning in the Warring States and early Han
- The "victory" of ritual learning : Western Han
- Conclusion and final arguments.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-216) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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