Confucius and the Analects Revisited: New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship

Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
	Michael Hunter and Martin Kern
		The Continuing Currency of the Lunyu
		Our Position on the Lunyu
		Of Rugs and Dominoes
		The Contributions
Chapter 1
	A Critical Overview of Some Contemporary Chinese Perspectives on the Composition and Date of the Lunyu
		John Makeham
		1	The Guodian Materials and the Dating of the Lunyu
		2	The Shanghai Museum Strips, Intertextuality, and a Proto-Lunyu Corpus
			Concluding Comments
Chapter 2
	The Lunyu as an Accretion Text
		Robert Eno
			The Concept of an Accretion Text
			Theories of the Lunyu as an Accretion Text
			Japanese Sinology and the Accretion Theory
			The Brookses’ Accretion Theory
			The Significance of Order within Disorder in the Lunyu
			The Historical Context for the Compilation of the Lunyu
			The Emergence of Confucian Aphoristic Collections
			The Likely Role of Qin Encyclopedism
			The Ru Underground of the Early Han and the Canonization of Confucius’s Wisdom
			Closing the Canon
			Conclusion
Chapter 3
	The Lunyu as a Western Han Text
		Michael Hunter
			The Title “Lunyu” 論語
			Han 漢 Bibliography and the Limitations Thereof
			The Evidence from Lunyu Intertextuality: Kongzi Quotations
			Developments in Kongzi Quotation Practice
			The Lunyu as a Layered Text
			Reading the Lunyu as a Western Han Text
			Conclusion
Chapter 4
	Confucius and His Disciples in the Lunyu: The Basis for the Traditional View
		Paul R. Goldin
		Evidence from Intellectual History
		The Evidence from Philosophical Vocabulary
		Evidence from References to Other Philosophers
Chapter 5
	The Lunyu, a Homeless Dog in Intellectual History: On the Dating of Discourses on Confucius’s Success and Failure
		Joachim Gentz
			Terms, Concepts, and Ideas in the Lunyu: Taking Ren 仁 as an Example
			Portrayals of Confucius in the Lunyu: Taking Confucius’s Success and Failure as an Example
			Success and Failure Outside of the Lunyu
			Conclusion
Chapter 6
	Confucius’s Sayings Entombed: On Two Han Dynasty Bamboo Lunyu Manuscripts
		Paul van Els
			The Dingzhou Analects
				Tomb and Excavation
				Tracings and Transcriptions
				Chapters, Sections, and Graphs
				Textual Differences
			The P’yŏngyang Analects
				Tomb and Discovery
				Features of the Manuscript
				Differences from the Received Analects
			Provenance of the Manuscripts
				When were the Manuscripts Copied?
				Where were the Manuscripts Copied?
				Why were the Manuscripts Copied?
			Conclusion
Chapter 7
	Manuscript Formats and Textual Structure in Early China
		Matthias L. Richter
			Hypotheses about the Influence of Manuscript Formats on Texts
			The Extension of Texts
			Correspondence between the Text and Its Carrier
			Mise-en-Page
			Conclusion
Chapter 8
	Interlocutor Collections, the Lunyu, and Proto-Lunyu Texts
		Mark Csikszentmihalyi
			Two Early Versions of the “Interlocutor Text” Origin Story
			“Interlocutor Texts” in Early China: The Case of Zengzi 曾子
			The First “Interlocutor Collection” and the Case of the Missing Zengzi 曾子
			Topical Consistency in the Lunyu
Chapter 9
	Sima Qian’s Kongzi and the Western Han Lunyu
		Esther Sunkyung Klein
			Overview of Sima Qian’s Lunyu
			The Shiji on Kongzi’s Disciples
			The Shiji “Kongzi shijia”
			Kongzi’s Multiple Roles in the Shiji
			The Kongzi of Historical Texts
				An Esoteric Kongzi
			Conclusion
Chapter 10
	Kongzi as Author in the Han
		Martin Kern
			Epilogue
Index