Before Confucius: Studies in the Creation of the Chinese Classics

Before Confucius
	Contents
	Illustrations
	Introduction
		Song Gui
		Notes
	1 Marriage, Divorce and Revolution Reading between the Lines of the Book of Changes
		Notes
	2 \"New\" Evidence on the Zhou Conquest
		Part I: Translation and Critical Text
		Part II: The Authenticity of the Text
			1. Textual Transmission
			2. Linguistic Usage
			3. Content and Textual Integrity
		Part III: The Conquest Campaign
		Notes
	3 On the Authenticity of the Bamboo Annals
		Some Authenticating \"Touchstones\" in the Text
		King Wu\'s Death Two Years After the Conquest of Shang
		King Wu\'s Death Six Years After the Conquest
		The \"Current\" Bamboo Annals Account of King Wu\'s Death
			Annals of King Wu, Fourteenth Year
			Reconstruction of Annals of King Cheng, Years Thirteen—Eighteen
				Strip One
				Transposed Strip
				Strip Two
		The Reason for the \"Current\" Bamboo Annals Arrangement
		Conclusions
		Notes
	4 The Duke of Zhou\'s Retirement in the East and the Beginnings of the Minister-Monarch Debate in Chi...
		The Historical Context of the Duke of Zhou
		The Question of the Duke of Zhou\'s \"Kingship\"
			Mei Situ Yi   Gui
			Cai   Zun
			Qin   Gui
		The Question of the Duke of Zhou\'s Regency
			The \'Jun Shi\": The Duke of Zhou Makes His Case
			The \"Shao Gao\" Grand Protector Shi Makes His Case
		The Question of the Duke of Zhou\'s Retirement
			The \"Jin Teng\": The Duke of Zhou Encounters Political Censure
		Conclusion
		Notes
	5 The Role of Grand Protector Shi in the Consolidation of the Zhou Conquest
		Taibao Gui
		Chuo You
		Lü Ding
		Zuoce Da Fangding
		Jin Ding
		Shu Tuoqi
		Notes
	6 From Liturgy to Literature The Ritual Contexts of the Earliest Poems in the Book of Poetry
		The \"Martial\" Song-and-Dance Suite
		The Liturgies of the Succession Rites
		Liturgies of Ancestral Sacrifice
		Notes
	7 The Composition of \"Qian\" and \"Kun\" Hexagrams of the Zhouyi
		Notes
	8 How the Poetess Came to Burn the Royal Chamber
		Notes
	Selected Bibliography of Secondary Works
	Index
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