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Witchcraft and the rise of the first Confucian empire

Liang Cai c2014 © State University of New York Press
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  • 9781438448510 (ebook)
  • 9781438448497 (hardcover)
  • 9781438448503 (paper)
Subject
  • Asian: China and Inner Asia
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  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • List of Charts and Tables (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • INTRODUCTION (page 1)
  • CHAPTER ONE: Minority as the Protagonists: Revisiting Ru 儒 (Confucians) and Their Colleagues under Emperor Wu (141-87 BCE) of the Han (page 9)
    • Ru, a Minority Group (page 10)
    • Sources of the Myth (page 34)
  • CHAPTER TWO: A Class Merely on Paper: A Study of "The Collective Biographies of Ru" in The Grand Scribe's Records (Shi ji 史記) (page 45)
    • Ru Identity Suppressed by Conflicts (page 45)
    • Transforming "Ru" into Confucians (page 47)
    • Redefining the Principles of Hierarchy (page 63)
  • CHAPTER THREE: An Archeology of Interpretive Schools of the Five Classics in the Western Han Dynasty (page 77)
    • Fragmented Scholarly Lineages (page 78)
    • Revising Sima Qian (page 81)
    • The Emergence and Proliferation of Interpretive Schools (page 86)
    • Continuity or Disruption (page 101)
    • Locating the Turning Point (page 109)
  • CHAPTER FOUR: A Reshuffle of Power: Witchcraft Scandal and the Birth of a New Class (page 113)
    • A Fundamental Disjunction (page 113)
    • The Rise of Ru Officials (page 121)
    • Witchcraft Scandal and the Birth of a New Class (page 135)
  • CHAPTER FIVE: Begin in the Middle: Who Entrusted Ru with Political Power? (page 153)
    • Huo Guang's Dictatorship and Ru Discourse (page 153)
    • Techniques of the Classics (jingshu 經術) and Legitimacy of the Throne (page 159)
    • Ru Officials under Huo Guang and Emperor Xuan (page 162)
    • Moral Cosmology and Emperor Xuan (page 167)
    • Who Entrusted Ru with Political Power? (page 175)
  • CONCLUSION (page 187)
    • Ru before the Rise of the Ru Empire (page 187)
    • Recruitment System of the Han Empire Revisited (page 191)
  • Appendix: Major Official Titles of the Western Han Dynasty (page 199)
  • Notes (page 203)
  • Bibliography (page 241)
  • Index (page 263)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
MRW 10.2 (Winter. 2015): 249-251 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/609110
CRI 21.2 (2014): 122-125 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639415
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