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... of the Shijing (Book of Poems) and its exegetical traditions on later writers and critics of poetry (and other genres) is universally recognized, if imperfectly understood. In Critics and Commentators , Bruce Rusk explores the relations between the study and exegesis of the Shijing and the writing...

... historiography of the ancient Chinese northeast. A ninth century BCE poem called “Hanyi” in the Classic of Poetry [Shijing] has been the cause of a far older history dispute. Whereas Chinese scholars have generally understood Han as a Zhou feudal state ruled by a Ji-surnamed scion of the Zhou Dynasty (1045–256...

... world of sinology. NANCY SHATZMAN STEINHARDT University of Pennsylvania Poetry and Personality: Reading, Exegesis, and Hermeneutics in Traditional China. By STEVEN V A N ZOEREN. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. 333 pp. $39.50. Western scholarship on the Shijing [the Odes] has tended to treat...

..., Baxter takes Old Chinese to be the language underlying various kinds of evidence dating back to the middle and early Zhou dynasty. The sources on which he bases his reconstruction are the usual ones: (1) early rhymed texts, principally the Shijing, (2) the structure of the Chinese script, and (3) Middle...

... Wen, a wedding he found further described in the poem "Da ming" (Great Brightness; Mao 236) of the Book of Odes [Shijing]: The great state had a child; She was as if a daughter of heaven. (King) Wen determined their luck And personally met (her) on the Wei (River), Building rafts into a bridge...

... in the Guodian corpus. Chapters 5 and 6 study Shijing 詩經 citations in Wuxing and elucidate how Wuxing incorporates canonical literature into its arguments. Chapter 7 focuses on a problematic passage about “humanity” 仁 and “propriety” 義 in the Guodian texts Wuxing and Liude 六德 , showing...

... underlying various kinds of evidence dating back to the middle and early Zhou dynasty. The sources on which he bases his reconstruction are the usual ones: (1) early rhymed texts, principally the Shijing, (2) the structure of the Chinese script, and (3) Middle Chinese reconstructed on the basis of the Sui...

... of sacred literature and commentary in the West are explored in juxtaposition with the commentarial tradition surrounding the Book of Odes ( Shijing ), through the fifth, a comparative study of literary production and interpretation in sixteenth-century England, its reception by late twentieth-century...

... a general conclusion to his book, Van Zoeren avoids making the sort of facile, thematic summary I have, of necessity, provided here. His argument, with which I fully agree, is that the major strand of Confucian Shijing hermeneutics treated in this book was but the most influential of "a panoply...

... of the NFA headquarters picked their way into Shijing, a village of some twenty households in the mountains of south Anhui. Here they made their last stand under General Ye Ting. They were hungry, short of ammunition, and exhausted by several days of marching through constant rain. Many had lost their shoes...

... and sentence fragments from primary sources that were composed hundreds of years apart and belonging to strikingly different literary genres. Quotes from the oldest layers of the Shijing , composed in the Western Zhou dynasty, are juxtaposed with texts such as the encyclopedic Lüshi Chunqiu...

... from a poem in the Shijing , purportedly a lament of the Zhou King Xuan during a prolonged drought; the rainmaker as martyr, based on an account of the Shang dynasty founder King Tang's offering himself in sacrifice during a drought; and the rainmaker as magician, referring to the Han-era Confucian...

... early works in the traditional Chinese canon, the Classic of Changes ( Zhouyi ) and Classic of Poetry ( Shijing ). Gu argues for the essential openness of both texts. Part IV revisits and expands on topics addressed in part I, including an exploration in chapter 7 of the linguistic economy...

... to the Tang dynasties, Qing dynasty gazetteers, fiction, biographical recollections, poetry collections, or periodicals. A handful of essays on early imperial sources examine specific texts as sources for women's history, such as the Shijing (Book of odes), or the Ishinpo , a Japanese compilation drawing...

... ( Shijing ) in the Southern Song, Murray has diligently explored related subjects, including Southern Song imperial patronage; Song, pre-Song, and later illustrations of other Confucian subjects; and the very nature and history of narrative illustration in China. In many respects, Mirror of Morality...

... changing attitudes toward the concubine, the drunken man in fact alludes to the poem “The River Has Branches” (“Jiang you si” 江有汜) from the Classic of Poetry ( Shijing 詩經), rather than the goddesses of the River Jiang from the Liexian zhuan 列仙傳. The drunken man's remark, “The primary wife herself also...

... Chamber," put Shijing poems in contexts, ritual and sexual respectively, which in Shaughnessy's view explain changes in the form of the Song (Hymns) and resolve a problem in the ode "Rufen" (Mao 10). Agreeing with Shaughnessy means accepting his belief in the ubiquity of writing as early as the beginning...

... as the Shijing through Neo-Confucian discussions. Svarverud has made a detailed study of relevant character frequency and usage patterns, and his discussions are well informed, with few apparent errors. In the case of some obscure terms, Svarverud breaks new interpretive ground. The principal value...

... of the Confucian classics (the Yijing as a manual for ancient diviners; the Shijing as a collection of ancient folksongs, etc He also strove to refute the "monistic" view of a consistent origin of the Han race traditionally linked with the idea of territorial integration in antiquity; Gu claimed that such unity...

... of Shijing poems, although he makes no effort to incorporate the Qin versions of Shi hymns preserved on stone, drumlike monuments. Despite his tendency to over generalize about "Zhou writing" based on these limited sources, Kern's study still has great value. Most interesting is Kern's belief that different...