Recovering Confucian Authority

Robert L. Chard, Ph.D. (1990), University of California, Berkeley, is Guest Chair Professor in the Department of History, Peking University, and Emeritus Professor of Chinese Classics at the University of Oxford, author of Creating Confucian Authority (Brill, 2021).

Contents


Preface





Introduction





1 The Eastern Han Restoration of Imperial Ritual


 1 Invisible Precedents – the Emperor Wang Mang


 2 Emperor Guangwu’s Imperial Sacrifices


 3 Zhang Chun 張純 – Ancestral Shrines, Sacred Buildings, the Feng and Shan





2 Ritual Reformation – Emperors Ming and Zhang


 1 A Cosmological Reformation – the Yue ling and the Weft Texts


 2 Emperor Zhang’s Ritual Agenda





3 Ritual Learning in the Second Century


 1 Empress Dowager Deng


 2 Ritual Scholars in Late Han





4 The Three Kingdoms Restorations of Imperial Ritual


 1 Before the Three Kingdoms – Ritual in Competing Centres of Power


 2 Cao Cao and the Wei Fiefdom


 3 Wei Imperial Rituals


 4 Ritual Learning in Shu and Wu





5 Western Jin Ritual Learning


 1 Jin Suburban Rites and Ancestral Shrines


 2 The Emperor in Mourning


 3 The Jin Ritual Code


 4 Ritual Decline and Fall


 5 The Shidian 釋奠 Sacrifices to Confucius


 6 Emperor Hui and Final Decline





Conclusion


Bibliography


Index