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Zhu Xi´s Reading of the Analects: Canon, Commentary, and the Classical Tradition
Daniel Gardner
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Description for Zhu Xi´s Reading of the Analects: Canon, Commentary, and the Classical Tradition
Paperback. A pioneering study of Zhu Xi's reading of the Analects, this book demonstrates how commentary is both informed by a text and informs future readings, and highlights the importance of interlinear commentary as a genre in Chinese philosophy. Num Pages: 184 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; HPDF; HRKN1; HRLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 499.
The Analects is a compendium of the sayings of Confucius (551-479 b.c.e.), transcribed and passed down by his disciples. How it came to be transformed by Zhu Xi (1130-1200) into one of the most philosophically significant texts in the Confucian tradition is the subject of this book. Scholarly attention in China had long been devoted to the Analects. By the time of Zhu Xi, a rich history of commentary had grown up around it. But Zhu, claiming that the Analects was one of the authoritative texts in the canon and should be read before all others, gave it a ... Read more
The Analects is a compendium of the sayings of Confucius (551-479 b.c.e.), transcribed and passed down by his disciples. How it came to be transformed by Zhu Xi (1130-1200) into one of the most philosophically significant texts in the Confucian tradition is the subject of this book. Scholarly attention in China had long been devoted to the Analects. By the time of Zhu Xi, a rich history of commentary had grown up around it. But Zhu, claiming that the Analects was one of the authoritative texts in the canon and should be read before all others, gave it a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press New York
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231128650
SKU
V9780231128650
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About Daniel Gardner
Daniel Gardner is professor of history at Smith College. He is the author of Learning to Be a Sage and Chu Hsi and the Ta-hsueh: Neo-Confucian Reflection on the Confucian Canon.
Reviews for Zhu Xi´s Reading of the Analects: Canon, Commentary, and the Classical Tradition
Gardner offers a sensitive and sympathetic reading of Zhu Xi's commentary on theAnalects... One leaves Gardner's work with a renewed appreciation of how interlinear commentaries functioned to reshape and revitalize the meaning of canonical writings and the tradition to which they belong.
Ari Borrell Journal of Asian Studies An ambitious and wholly admirable new series.
T. H. Barrett ... Read more
Ari Borrell Journal of Asian Studies An ambitious and wholly admirable new series.
T. H. Barrett ... Read more