Eros, introversion, and the beginnings of 'Shijing' commentary
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The ancient Chinese odes known as the Shijing were often quoted in later centuries to indicate proper courtly speech. Confucius recommended that his students learn the morals they taught. Commentaries on the Shijing are very old, but the early ones assumed the connection between the interpretation and the words of the ode. One of the first explicit commentaries is the 3rd century BCE Wuxingpian. The next such commentary comes a century later in the Han dynasty.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 1997
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Byways in the imperial Chinese information order: The dissemination and commercial publication of state documents
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The non-fictional, semi-official, and pseudo-official uses of official news and archival materials and the place of these materials in the late imperial Chinese information order are analyzed. The different types of archival and historical collections along with associated processes of compilation are reviewed and state policies on access to material are discussed and contrasted with legal regulations with actual access.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 2006
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Getting there from here: locating the subject in early Chinese poetics
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Early Confucian and Taoist poetry treat the spatial location of a poem's subject differently. Both regard space as produced by the process of thought and awareness. Confucian poetry is based on a stable center and responds to its surroundings in a symmetrical manner. Subjects in Taoist poetry move in unpredictable ways and ignore their environment. Confucian poems predate Taoist developments.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 1996
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