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Author Zhao, Lu, 1985- author.

Title In pursuit of the great peace : Han Dynasty classicism and the making of early medieval literati culture / Zhao Lu.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 328 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Note Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Pennsylvania, 2013.
Summary "Through an examination of the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, Zhao Lu describes the transformation of literati culture that occurred during the Han Dynasty. Driven by anxiety over losing the mandate of Heaven, the imperial court encouraged classicism in order to establish the Great Peace and follow Heaven's will. But instead of treating the literati as puppets of competing and imagined lineages, Zhao uses sociological methods to reconstruct their daily lives and to show how they created their own thought by adopting, modifying, and opposing the work of their contemporaries and predecessors. The literati who served as bureaucrats in the first century BCE gradually became classicists who depended on social networking as they traveled to study the classics. By the second century CE, classicism had dissolved in this traveling culture and the literari began to expand the corpus of knowledge beyond the accepted canon. Thus, far from being static, classicism in Han China was full of innovation, and ultimately gave birth to both literary writing and religious Daoism"-- Provided by publisher
Contents Toward a zeal for classicism intellectual transitions from 74 BC to AD 9 China -- The conflation between heaven and the classics: the rise of apocrypha (chenwei) -- Apocrypha, Confucius, and monarchy in Emperor Ming's Reign (AD 58-75) -- Finding teachers versus making friends: the gradual departure from classicism in the first two centuries AD -- The radical and the conservative Zheng Xuan, He Xiu, the Scripture of the Great Peace, and their stances on the classics
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Subject China -- Intellectual life -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D.
Classicism -- China -- History.
Classicism.
China.
History.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 221 B.C.-960 A.D.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Zhao, Lu, 1985- In pursuit of the great peace. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2019] 9781438474915 (DLC) 2018035997 (OCoLC)1078730038
ISBN 9781438474939 (electronic book)
1438474938 (electronic book)
9781438474915 (hardcover)
1438474911 (hardcover)