Transmitting Authority : Wang Tong (ca. 584-617) and the Zhongshuo in Medieval China's Manuscript Culture.

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Author / Creator:Warner, Ding Xiang.
Imprint:Leiden : BRILL, 2014.
Description:1 online resource (237 pages)
Language:English
Series:Sinica Leidensia
Sinica Leidensia.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11231736
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ISBN:9789004276338
9004276335
1306858259
9781306858250
9789004273214
9004273212
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Transmitting Authority reveals the interdependence between the textual and social history of the Zhongshuo and the rise and fall of the cultural currency of Wang Tong (ca. 584-617), a.k.a. Master Wenzhong, whose teachings this work purports to record.
Other form:Print version: Warner, Ding Xiang. Transmitting Authority. Leiden : BRILL, 2014 9789004273214
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Notes to the Reader; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1; The Transmission History of the Zhongshuo, Seventh through Eleventh Centuries; IThe Contents of the Received Zhongshuo; IIAppendices to the Received Zhongshuo; IIIThe First Shaping of the Zhongshuo; IVThe Zhongshuo during the Tang Dynasty; VThe Shaping of the Zhongshuo
  • In the Song Dynasty and Since; Chapter 2; Features, Problems, and Puzzles in the Received Zhongshuo Features, Problems, and Puzzles in the Zhongshuo; IFormat Types; IIStyles of Reference; IIIThe Growth of Wang Tong's Discipleship.
  • ConclusionChapter 3; The Genesis of a Confucian Master's Legacy; IThe Wunderkind from Longmen; IIMan with a Charge; IIIWang Tong and His White Ox Creek Circle; IVThe White Ox Creek Circle and the Germination of the Wang Tong Myth; Chapter 4; The Cultivation of a Family Legacy; IA Grandson's Tribute: Part One; IIYang Jiong's Validation; IIIA Family Investment: Part One; IVA Grandson's Tribute: Part Two; VA Family Investment: Part Two; Chapter 5; Appropriations of the Master's Legacy; IBefore and After: Two Funerary Epitaphs for Descendants of Master Wenzhong.
  • IISikong Tu and Pi Rixiu in the Days of the Dying TangIIIRestoring the Lost; IVWang Tong in Popular Literature; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.