Poetry and Personality: Reading, Exegesis, and Hermeneutics in Traditional China

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Stanford University Press, 1991 - 333 頁
This is a history of the hermeneutics of China's earliest classic, the Book of Odes, which was probably compiled about the 6th century BC. Neither a reading of the Odes as such, nor yet a history of their interpretation, this study attempts rather to trace the principles that guided the interpretation of the Odes over some two thousand years of Chinese history. The book begins by tracing the rise and development in China of the disposition to treat certain 'classical' texts as the ultimate repositories of the culture's values and norms, a disposition that was to shape the political, social, and cultural institutions of traditional China. A notable example was the examination system, which tested candidates for state office on their knowledge of the canon, in the process making questions concerning the interpretation of the canon prominent in public as well as in private life. The author then describes the emergence of the distinctive and influential hermeneutic associated with the Odes.

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ONE Introduction I
1
TWO The Discovery of the Text
17
THREE The Odes Articulate Aims
52
FOUR The Preface to Maos Odes
80
SEVEN Subjectivity and Understanding
190
EIGHT Zhu Xis New Synthesis
218
Notes
253
Works Cited
295
Chinese Character List
309
Index
319
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