The political and cultural power of Confucianism is nowhere more apparent than in ritual. Confucian-educated officials proficient in Ritual Learning shape the ritual institutions that express dynastic legitimacy.
This book follows the workings of Ritual Learning during the first three centuries of the Common Era, a time marked by three dynastic changes and difficult recovery of the ritual order under new regimes. Contrary to common understanding, the Eastern Han is a time of flux, uncertainty, and neglect in Confucian ritual forms, and the following third century is an era when Confucian dominance over imperial ritual crystallized as never before.
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Höhe: 236 mm
Breite: 155 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
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978-90-04-71367-3 (9789004713673)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Robert L. Chard, Ph.D. (1990), University of California, Berkeley, is Guest Chair Professor in the Department of History, Peking University, and Emeritus Professor of Chinese Classics at the University of Oxford, author of Creating Confucian Authority (Brill, 2021).
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 The Eastern Han Restoration of Imperial Ritual
?1?Invisible Precedents - the Emperor Wang Mang
?2?Emperor Guangwu's Imperial Sacrifices
?3?Zhang Chun ?? - Ancestral Shrines, Sacred Buildings, the Feng and Shan
2 Ritual Reformation - Emperors Ming and Zhang
?1?A Cosmological Reformation - the Yue ling and the Weft Texts
?2?Emperor Zhang's Ritual Agenda
3 Ritual Learning in the Second Century
?1?Empress Dowager Deng
?2?Ritual Scholars in Late Han
4 The Three Kingdoms Restorations of Imperial Ritual
?1?Before the Three Kingdoms - Ritual in Competing Centres of Power
?2?Cao Cao and the Wei Fiefdom
?3?Wei Imperial Rituals
?4?Ritual Learning in Shu and Wu
5 Western Jin Ritual Learning
?1?Jin Suburban Rites and Ancestral Shrines
?2?The Emperor in Mourning
?3?The Jin Ritual Code
?4?Ritual Decline and Fall
?5?The Shidian ?? Sacrifices to Confucius
?6?Emperor Hui and Final Decline
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
