Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy

Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy is the first book in any Western language to explore the composition, language, thought, and early history of the Shangshu (Classic of Documents), one of the pillars of the Chinese textual, intellectual, and political tradition. In examining the text from multiple disciplinary and intellectual perspectives, Origins of Chinese Political Ph...

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Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy is the first book in any Western language to explore the composition, language, thought, and early history of the Shangshu (Classic of Documents), one of the pillars of the Chinese textual, intellectual, and political tradition. In examining the text from multiple disciplinary and intellectual perspectives, Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy challenges the traditional accounts of the nature and formation of the Shangshu and its individual chapters. As it analyzes in detail the central ideas and precepts given voice in the text, it further recasts the Shangshu as a collection of dynamic cultural products that expressed and shaped the political and intellectual discourses of different times and communities.

Contributors are: Joachim Gentz, Yegor Grebnev, Magnus Ribbing Gren, Michael Hunter, Martin Kern, Maria Khayutina, Robin McNeal, Dirk Meyer, Yuri Pines, Charles Sanft, David Schaberg, Kai Vogelsang.

Introduction1
Martin Kern and Dirk Meyer
1 Language and the Ideology of Kingship in the “Canon of Yao 堯典”23
Martin Kern
2 Competing Voices in the Shangshu62
Kai Vogelsang
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Introduction1
Martin Kern and Dirk Meyer
1 Language and the Ideology of Kingship in the “Canon of Yao 堯典”23
Martin Kern
2 Competing Voices in the Shangshu62
Kai Vogelsang
3 Recontextualization and Memory Production: Debates on Rulership as
Reconstructed from “Gu ming” 顧命 106
Dirk Meyer
4 One Heaven, One History, One People: Repositioning the Zhou in Royal
Addresses to Subdued Enemies in the “Duo shi” 多士 and “Duo fang”
多方 Chapters of the Shangshu and in the “Shang shi” 商誓 Chapter of
the Yi Zhoushu 逸周書146
Joachim Gentz
5 The Qinghua “Jinteng” 金縢 Manuscript: What It Does Not Tell Us about
the Duke of Zhou193
Magnus Ribbing Gren
6 “Shu 書” Traditions and Text Recomposition: A Reevaluation of “Jinteng”
金縢 and “Zhou Wu Wang you ji” 周武王有疾 224
Dirk Meyer
7 The Yi Zhoushu and the Shangshu: The Case of Texts with
Speeches249
Yegor Grebnev
8 The “Harangues” (Shi 誓) in the Shangshu281
Martin Kern
9 Speaking of Documents: Shu 書 Citations in Warring States Texts320
David Schaberg
10 A Toiling Monarch? The “Wu yi” 無逸 Chapter Revisited360
Yuri Pines
11 Against (Uninformed) Idleness: Situating the Didacticism of “Wu yi”
無逸 393
Michael Hunter
12 “Bi shi” 粊誓, Western Zhou Oath Texts, and the Legal Culture of Early
China416
Maria Khayutina
13 Concepts of Law in the Shangshu446
Charles Sanft
14 Spatial Models of the State in Early Chinese Texts: Tribute Networks
and the Articulation of Power and Authority in Shangshu “Yu gong”
禹貢 and Yi Zhoushu “Wang hui” 王會 475
Robin McNeal
Index497
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