TY  - BOOK
AU  - Song,Jaeyoon
TI  - Traces of Grand Peace: Classics and State Activism in Imperial China
T2  - Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
SN  - 9781684170821
AV  - PL2283 .S664 2015 
U1  - 951/.024 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - Harvard University Asia Center
KW  - Zhou Gong,--1105 B.C.-Influence
KW  - Zhou li-Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Chinese literature-221 B.C.-960 A.D.-History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Traces of Grand Peace: Classics and State Activism in Imperial China -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Conventions -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: WEALTH, POWER, AND LEGITIMACY -- 1. A Brief History of the Zhouli, 200 BC-AD 900 -- 2. The Ascent of the Zhouli before the New Policies -- 3. The Zhouli and Li Gou's Constitutional Agenda -- 4. The Rise of the Zhouli during the New Policies Period -- PART II: BUREAUCRACY AND STATE MANAGEMENT -- 5. The New Learning and the Politics of Etymology -- 6. Premiership and the Principles of Bureaucracy -- 7. The Supreme Ruler and Political Legitimacy -- PART III: ECONOMIC PLANS, SOCIAL ORGANIZATION, AND MORAL SUASION -- 8. Economic Plans and Popular Welfare -- 9. The Realms of Governance and the Methods of Education -- 10. "To Unify Morality and Correct Customs" -- PART IV: POLITICAL VISIONS AND PLANS FOR REFORM IN THE NEW POLICIES PERIOD -- 11. The Political Geography of the Western Zhou -- 12. The Fengjian System in the Zhouli -- 13. The Market, Social Organization, and the Military System -- 14. Taking Back the Zhouli in the Southern Song -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Chinese Characters -- Index -- Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
N2  - Since the second century BC the Confucian Classics, endorsed by the successive ruling houses of imperial China, had stood in tension with the statist ideals of "big government." In Northern Song China (960-1127), a group of reform-minded statesmen and thinkers sought to remove the tension between the two by revisiting the highly controversial classic, the Rituals of Zhou: the administrative blueprint of an archaic bureaucratic state with the six ministries of some 370 offices staffed by close to 94,000 men. With their revisionist approaches, they reinvented it as the constitution of state activism. Most importantly, the reform-councilor Wang Anshi's (1021-1086) new commentary on the Rituals of Zhou rose to preeminence during the New Policies period (ca. 1068-1125), only to be swept into the dustbin of history afterward. By reconstructing his revisionist exegesis from its partial remains, this book illuminates the interplay between classics, thinkers, and government in statist reform, and explains why the uneasy marriage between classics and state activism had to fail in imperial China
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