The Huainanzi and Liu An's Claim to Moral Authority

by Vankeerberghen, Griet

• ISBN13: 9780791451489
• ISBN10: 0791451488
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Author Biography

Griet Vankeerberghen is Assistant Professor in the History Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
Introduction	1	(6)
Introduction to Part 1	7	(72)
Conflicting Views of Morality	9	(28)
The Intellectual Climate at the Beginning of Emperor Wu's Reign	9	(2)
The King of Huainan's Place in the Intellectual Scene	11	(2)
Moral Conflict	13	(14)
Gongsun Hong, Zhang Tang, and Events in Huainan after 124 B.C.	27	(6)
Contemporaries' Reactions to the Huainan Trial	33	(2)
Terror after 122 B.C.	35	(2)
The Triangle of Power: Emperor, Kings, and Officials	37	(26)
The Kings: A Political History	37	(2)
The Kings: An Alternative History	39	(10)
Relations between Emperor Wu and the King of Huainan before 123 B.C.	49	(6)
The Events of 223-122 B.C. Revisited	55	(5)
Conclusion	60	(3)
The Official Representation of the 123-122 B.C. Events	63	(16)
Cycles in Emperor Wu's Reign: The Capture of the Unicorn	63	(2)
The Transition from ``Old'' to ``New''	65	(2)
Liu An's Biography in Shi ji and Han shu	67	(12)
Introduction to Part 2	79	(68)
The Goals of Human Action	83	(18)
The Archer	83	(3)
Adjusting the Scale	86	(9)
Roots and Branches	95	(2)
Wuwei	97	(4)
Following Nature	101	(26)
On Xing	101	(4)
Sages and Nonsages	105	(6)
Humans' Transforming Power	111	(4)
The Virtues	115	(2)
Who Should Become a Sage?	117	(1)
The Huainanzi and Dong Zhongshu's Memorials	118	(9)
Evaluating the Sage: Fate, History, and Human Responsibility	127	(20)
The First Model: ``Heaven Has No Favorites''	127	(8)
The Second Model: The Case of Bo Yi	135	(6)
Conclusion: Evaluations of Liu An and the Huainanzi	141	(6)
Table 1. Chronology of Main Events in the Life of Liu An	147	(2)
Table 2. The Liu Kings, 202-120 B.C.	149	(4)
Appendix 1. A Comparison of Liu An's Biographies in Shi ji 118 and Han shu 44 with a Proposed Reconstruction of Two Layers of Text	153	(16)
Notes	169	(38)
Bibliography	207	(10)
Index	217