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An edition of Xun Xu and the politics of precision in third-century AD China (2010)

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"This biography of the court scholar Xun Xu explores central areas of intellectual life in third-century China - court lyrics, music, metrology, pitch systems, archeology, and historiography. It clarifies the relevant source texts in order to reveal fierce debates. Besides solving technical puzzles about the material details of court rites, the book unfolds factional struggles that developed into scholarly ones. Xun's opponents were major figures like Zhang Hua and Zhi Yu. Xun Xu's overall approach to antiquity and the derivation of truth made appeals to an idealized Zhou for authority. Ultimately, Xun's precision and methods cost him both reputation and court status. The events mark a turning point in which ideals were moving away from such court constructs toward a relatively more philosophical antiquarianism and towards new terms and genres of self-expression."--Publisher's description.

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Brill
Language
English
Pages
414

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Subjects

Politics and government, Historians, Intellectual life, Scholars, Biography, History

People

Xu Xun (d. 289)

Places

China

Times

220-589, Jin dynasty, 265-419, 221 B.C.-960 A.D., Three kingdoms, 220-265

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Table of Contents

Introduction: the Zhengsheng mode
The Xuns of Yingyin and Luoyang
Xun Xu's first posts, ca. 248-265
Aesthetics and precision in court ritual songs, ca. 266-272
Commandeering staff and proclaiming precision, ca. 273-274
A martinet of melody, ca. 274-277
A new day, new antiquities, new factions, ca. 277-284
"They've stolen my Phoenix pool", 284-89 and beyond.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Leiden, Boston
Series
Sinica Leidensia -- v. 95, Sinica Leidensia -- v. 95.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
931.0072/02, B
Library of Congress
DS748.44.X86 G66 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 414 p. :
Number of pages
414

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24436116M
Internet Archive
newsourcesearlyc00shau
ISBN 10
900418337X
ISBN 13
9789004183377
LCCN
2009053995
OCLC/WorldCat
495436807

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