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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Charts and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Numbers as Narrative and as Method
Polyphonic Voices and Retrospective Constructions
Who Were the Confucians?
Summary of Chapters
Chapter One: Minority as the Protagonists: Revisiting Ru 儒 (Confucians) and Their Colleagues under Emperor Wu (141–87 BCE) of the Han
Ru, a Minority Group
Backgrounds of Eminent Officials
Principles of Hierarchy
Where Were the Ru, the Huang-Lao Followers, and the Legalists?
Sima Qian’s Classification of His Contemporary Officials
Reassessing the Recommendation System and the Imperial Academy
Sources of the Myth
A Displaced Chapter: “The Basic Annals of Emperor Wu” (Xiaowu Benji 孝武本紀) of the Grand Scribe’s Records
Manipulated Political History: “The Collective Biographies of Ru”
Chapter Two: A Class Merely on Paper: A Study of “The Collective Biographies of Ru” in The Grand Scribe’s Records (Shi ji 史記)
Ru Identity Suppressed by Conflicts
Transforming “Ru” into Confucians
Xueguan in “The Collective Biographies of Ru”
Invoking a Sacred history of Ru Officials
Genuine or Constructed History?
Constructing a Homogenous Textual Community
Representing or Producing?
Redefining the Principles of Hierarchy
Sima Qian’s Representation of Officialdom under Emperor Wu
Tailoring the History
Chapter Three: An Archeology of Interpretive Schools of the Five Classics in the Western Han Dynasty
Fragmented Scholarly Lineages
Revising Sima Qian
The Emergence and Proliferation of Interpretive Schools
Continuity or Disruption
Locating the Turning Point
Chapter Four: A Reshuffle of Power: Witchcraft Scandal and the Birth of a New Class
A Fundamental Disjunction
The Rise of Ru Officials
Witchcraft Scandal and the Birth of a New Class
Chapter Five: Begin in the Middle: Who Entrusted Ru with Political Power?
Huo Guang’s Dictatorship and Ru Discourse
Techniques of the Classics (Jingshu 經術 經術) and Legitimacy of the Throne
Ru Officials Under Huo Guang and Emperor Xuan
Moral Cosmology and Emperor Xuan
Who Entrusted Ru with Political Power?
Conclusion
Ru Before the Rise of the Ru Empire
Recruitment System of the Han Empire Revisited
Appendix: Major Official Titles of the Western Han Dynasty
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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