In pursuit of the great peace : Han Dynasty classicism and the making of early medieval literati culture /
Zhao, Lu, 1985-
In pursuit of the great peace : Han Dynasty classicism and the making of early medieval literati culture / Zhao Lu. - Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource. - SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture .
Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Pennsylvania, 2013.
Includes bibliographies and index.
"Through an examination of the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, Zhao Lu describes the transformation of literati culture that occurred during the Han Dynasty. Driven by anxiety over losing the mandate of Heaven, the imperial court encouraged classicism in order to establish the Great Peace and follow Heaven's will. But instead of treating the literati as puppets of competing and imagined lineages, Zhao uses sociological methods to reconstruct their daily lives and to show how they created their own thought by adopting, modifying, and opposing the work of their contemporaries and predecessors. The literati who served as bureaucrats in the first century BCE gradually became classicists who depended on social networking as they traveled to study the classics. By the second century CE, classicism had dissolved in this traveling culture and the literari began to expand the corpus of knowledge beyond the accepted canon. Thus, far from being static, classicism in Han China was full of innovation, and ultimately gave birth to both literary writing and religious Daoism"--
9781438474939
Classicism--History.--China
Electronic Books.
DS747 / .I578 2019
In pursuit of the great peace : Han Dynasty classicism and the making of early medieval literati culture / Zhao Lu. - Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource. - SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture .
Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Pennsylvania, 2013.
Includes bibliographies and index.
"Through an examination of the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, Zhao Lu describes the transformation of literati culture that occurred during the Han Dynasty. Driven by anxiety over losing the mandate of Heaven, the imperial court encouraged classicism in order to establish the Great Peace and follow Heaven's will. But instead of treating the literati as puppets of competing and imagined lineages, Zhao uses sociological methods to reconstruct their daily lives and to show how they created their own thought by adopting, modifying, and opposing the work of their contemporaries and predecessors. The literati who served as bureaucrats in the first century BCE gradually became classicists who depended on social networking as they traveled to study the classics. By the second century CE, classicism had dissolved in this traveling culture and the literari began to expand the corpus of knowledge beyond the accepted canon. Thus, far from being static, classicism in Han China was full of innovation, and ultimately gave birth to both literary writing and religious Daoism"--
9781438474939
Classicism--History.--China
Electronic Books.
DS747 / .I578 2019