Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- PART I Three perspectives on the authenticity of the Ch'un-ch'iu fan-lu
- 2 A biography of Tung Chung-shu
- 3 A history of Tung Chung-shu's literary corpus
- 4 The authorship of the Ch'un-ch'iu fan-lu
- PART II Exegesis and canonization
- Appendix 1 The birth and death dates of Tung Chung-shu
- Appendix 2 The dates of the Han-shu 56 memorials
- Appendix 3 Han transmission of Kung-yang learning
- Appendix 4 Han dynasty disciples of Tung Chung-shu
- Appendix 5 Citations and titles attributed to Tung Chung-shu
- Appendix 6 Transmission of Ch'un-ch'iu fan-lu editions
- Selected bibliography
- Index
3 - A history of Tung Chung-shu's literary corpus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- PART I Three perspectives on the authenticity of the Ch'un-ch'iu fan-lu
- 2 A biography of Tung Chung-shu
- 3 A history of Tung Chung-shu's literary corpus
- 4 The authorship of the Ch'un-ch'iu fan-lu
- PART II Exegesis and canonization
- Appendix 1 The birth and death dates of Tung Chung-shu
- Appendix 2 The dates of the Han-shu 56 memorials
- Appendix 3 Han transmission of Kung-yang learning
- Appendix 4 Han dynasty disciples of Tung Chung-shu
- Appendix 5 Citations and titles attributed to Tung Chung-shu
- Appendix 6 Transmission of Ch'un-ch'iu fan-lu editions
- Selected bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the preceding chapter we saw that Han sources attribute three works to Tung Chung-shu: Tung Chung-shu, Kung-yang Tung Chung-shu chih-yü, and Tsai-i chih chi. Yet the Ch'un-ch'iu fan-lu appears to be a post-Han collection from not later than the sixth-century Liang dynasty. This chapter clarifies the relationship between this later collection and the Han works attributed to Tung Chung-shu by considering the received text within the broader spectrum of Tung's literary corpus. Bibliographies, catalogs of private collections, commentaries, acknowledged and unacknowledged quotations, paraphrases of Tung's writings, extant fragments, and various editions of Tung's works all shed light on the text's authenticity. For example, while Han citations of Tung's works that appear in the Ch'un-ch'iu fan-lu substantiate reliable portions of the received text, Han descriptions of his writings suggest the reliability of essays that cannot be confirmed through direct testimony. Additional materials with which to study the received text that have hitherto not been explored are post-Han citations attributed to Tung Chung-shu that lack parallels in the Ch'un-ch'iu fan-lu. These unattached fragments of Tung's writings preserved in various commentaries and encyclopedias have been virtually forgotten over the years. In this chapter I examine these writings to provide a second lens through which to examine the authenticity of the Ch'un-ch'iu fan-lu. They will augment the chronology of the previous chapter that provided the historical context in which to consider the received text.
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- From Chronicle to CanonThe Hermeneutics of the Spring and Autumn according to Tung Chung-shu, pp. 39 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996