| Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn Contributor(s): Dong, Zhongshu (Author), Major, John (Translator), Queen, Sarah (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0231169329 ISBN-13: 9780231169325 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - China - Philosophy | Eastern - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 931.03 |
| LCCN: 2015008489 |
| Series: Translations from the Asian Classics |
| Physical Information: 2.1" H x 6.5" W x 9.4" (2.55 lbs) 704 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu) is a chronicle kept by the dukes of the state of Lu from 722 to 481 B.C.E. Luxuriant Gems of the "Spring and Autumn" (Chunqiu fanlu) follows the interpretations of the Gongyang Commentary, whose transmitters sought to explicate the special language of the Spring and Autumn. The work is often ascribed to the Han scholar and court official Dong Zhongshu, but, as this study reveals, the text is in fact a compendium of writings by a variety of authors spanning several generations. It depicts a utopian vision of a flourishing humanity that they believed to be Confucius's legacy to the world. The Gongyang masters thought that Confucius had written the Spring and Autumn, employing subtle phrasing to indicate approval or disapproval of important events and personages. Luxuriant Gems therefore augments Confucian ethical and philosophical teachings with chapters on cosmology, statecraft, and other topics drawn from contemporary non-Confucian traditions. A major resource, this book features the first complete English-language translation of Luxuriant Gems, divided into eight thematic sections with introductions that address dating, authorship, authenticity, and the relationship between the Spring and Autumn and the Gongyang approach. Critically illuminating early Chinese philosophy, religion, literature, and politics, this book conveys the brilliance of intellectual life in the Han dynasty during the formative decades of the Chinese imperial state. |
Contributor Bio(s): Major, John: - John S. Major (PhD, Harvard) currently holds an appointment as Senior Lecturer at the China Institute in New York and is a a member of the Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Early China. His publications include Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought (State University of New York Press 1993), The Essential Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory of Practice of Government in Early Han China (Columbia University Press, 2010), and Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn, a translation of the Chunqiu fanlu, with Sarah A. Queen (Columbia University Press, 2015). |