The Five Classics associated with Confucius formed the core curriculum in the education of Chinese literati throughout most of the imperial period. In this book Michael Nylan offers a sweeping assessment of these ancient texts and shows how their influence spread across East Asia. Nylan begins by tracing the formation of the Five Classics canon in the pre-Han and Han periods, 206 B.C. to A.D. 220, revising standard views on the topic. She assesses the impact on this canon of the invention of a rival corpus, The Four Books, in the twelfth century. She then analyses each of the Five Classics, discussing when they were written, how they were transmitted and edited in later periods, and what political, historical, and ethical themes were associated with them through the ages. Finally she deliberates on the intertwined fates of Confucius and the Five Classics over the course of the twentieth century and shows how their contents are relevant to much newer concerns.
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"A critical yet informed revisionist view of the Five Classics that will receive wide attention and acclaim." -- David R. Knechtges, University of Washington
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This is Commentary, not a translation of the Classics themselves,
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I have been searching for a set of translations of these Five Classic Books and thought that with a title like The Five "Confucian" Classics, this would be exactly what I needed. Unfortunately, this book does not contain a translation of the actual classics, just commentary on them.
Unfortunately, since this book was so expensive, I bought the kindle version to try and save a little money and now I can't return it. I feel a bit cheated and would only recommend this book to people who are looking for a scholarly analysis of the Classics, not the Classics themselves.
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- Landscape and Power in Early China: The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou 1045-771 BC by Li Feng in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Transformations Of The Confucian Way (Explorations; Contemporary Perspectives on Religion) by John Berthrong on page 50
- Das politische System der Volksrepublik China (German Edition) by Sebastian Heilmann in Back Matter
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