Record of Daily Knowledge and Collected Poems and Essays, Selections by Gu, Yanwu -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Series Page Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph 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

1. SWJ 1: Statecraft Essays

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)

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