Genealogy of the Way: The Construction and Uses of the Confucian Tradition in Late Imperial China
Stanford University Press (1995)
| Abstract | Beginning in the Southern Sung, one Confucian sect gradually came to dominate literati culture and, by the Ming dynasty, was canonized as state orthodoxy. This book is a historical and textual critique of the process by which claims to exclusive possession of the truth came to serve power. The author analyzes the formation of the Confucian canon and its role in the civil service examinations, the enshrinement of worthies in the Confucian temple, and the emergence of the Confucian anthology, activities that canonized one conception of the Confucian tradition as orthodox by selecting among persons who shaped the tradition. This lineage became 'the genealogy of the way'. The author draws on contemporary cultural and literary theory to help situate Confucian anthologies in ritual, institutional, sectarian, and ideological contexts. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Philosophy, Confucian Learning and scholarship History | |||||||||
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| Call number | B5233.C6.W55 1995 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0804724253 9780804724258 | |||||||||
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