CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
List of Bibliographical Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Essays from the Record of Daily Knowledge (Rizhi Lu—RZL)
1. RZL 1–7: The Classics
1.1 The Three Changes
1.3 Zhu Xi’s The Original Meaning of the Zhou “Changes” (Zhou Yi Benyi)
2.39 The Old Text Documents (Guwen Shang Shu)
3.3 Confucius’s Editing of the Odes
3.16 The One-Year-Old Boars Are for Themselves
4.2 Omissions and Doubts in the Spring and Autumn Annals
5.7 Doctors
6.24 Love for Ordinary People Is the Reason for Penalties and Punishments
6.38 Perfecting Knowledge
6.45 Ghosts and Spirits
7.8 The Master’s Words on Nature and the Dao (Way) of Heaven
7.39 The Arrangement of Ranks in the Zhou House
7.44 To Seek the Lost Mind
7.55 The Nine Classics
2. RZL 8–12: Administration and Economics
8.5 The Governing of Townships (Xiang 鄉) and Neighborhoods (Ting 亭)
8.10 Laws and Regulations
9.1 Men of Ability
10.8 Drawing Money in Advance
11.16 Debasing Silver
12.2 Officials Who Speak of Profit
3. RZL 13–15: Customs and Mores
13.1 The Customs and Mores of the Late Zhou
13.2 The Kuaiji Mountain Stone Carvings of the Qin Annals
13.3 The Customs and Mores of the Two Hans
13.4 The Zhengshi Reign Period (240–248)
13.6 Disinterested (“Pure”) Criticism (Qing Yi 清議)
13.7 The Teaching of Ming (Ming Jiao 名教)
13.8 Honesty and a Sense of Shame
13.28 What Officials Study in Their Later Years
14.20 The Ten Wise Ones
15.3 Extravagant Burials
4. RZL 16–17: The Examination System
16.5 Examination Categories (The Classification of Scholars)
16.6 Zhike 制科 (Special Examinations)
17.13 The Same Year
5. RZL 18–21: Literature and Philosophy
18.12 The Inner Canon (Nei Dian 內典)
18.13 The Learning of Mind and Heart (Xin Xue 心學)
19.6 The Proliferation of the Literati
19.11 Complexity and Simplicity in Writing
20.23 Transmitting the Words of the Ancients
21.1 The Purpose of Poetry
21.17 The Successive Falling Away of Poetic Style
6. RZL 22–32: Miscellaneous
22.1 The Four Seas
23.10 Clans (Families) of the Northern Region
24.26 Hanlin (Imperial Academy)
25.5 Harmonious Joint Rule
26.12 Superfluous Characters in Historical Writings
27.9 Notes on the Xunzi
28.1 Bowing, and Bowing to the Ground
29.12 Local Dialects
30.1 The Pattern (Wen) of the Heavens (Astronomy)
30.26 The Barbarian Custom of Belief in Ghosts
31.37 Dai 代
32.2 Nai He
Part II. Essays, Letters, and Prefaces from Collected Poems and Essays (Tinglin Shiwenji—SWJ)
1. SWJ 1: Statecraft Essays
1.4–12 On Commanderies and Districts (The Junxian System 郡縣, Centralization), 1–9
1.13–14 On Money and Grain (Qianliang 錢糧—Taxation), 1–2
1.15–17 On Government Students (Shengyuan 生員), 1–3
2. SWJ 2: Prefaces
2.1 Preface to the Yinxue Wushu
2.3 Preface to the First Edition of the Rizhi Lu
3. SWJ 3: Letters 1
3.1 Letter to a Friend Discussing Learning
4. SWJ 4: Letters 2
4.18–41 Letters to Friends
4.42 Letter to a Friend
5. SWJ 5: Records, Inscriptions, and Other Writings
5.2 The Pei Village Record
6. SWJ 6: Miscellaneous
6.1 On Military Systems
6.2 On Geography
6.3 On Agriculture
6.4 On Monetary Systems
6.19 Letter to Yang Xuechen
Part III. Poems from Collected Poems and Essays (Tinglin Shiwenji—SWJ)
Appendix 1. Biographical Summary
Appendix 2. Works by Gu Yanwu
Appendix 3. Zhang Binglin’s Preface to Huang Kan’s Rizhi Lu Jiaoji
Appendix 4. On the Feudal System (Fengjian Lun)—Liu Zongyuan
Notes
Bibliography
Index