Interpretation and Intellectual Change: Chinese Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective

by Tu,Ching-I

• ISBN13: 9780765802316
• ISBN10: 0765802317
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Divided into six parts, corresponding to major periods of intellectual change in traditional and contemporary China, Interpretation and Intellectual Change deals with the development of Chinese hermeneutics, or the general principles of the Meaning of Language, from their beginnings to the twentieth century. The contributors address critical issues in the study of Chinese hermeneutics by focusing on key periods during which the hermeneutic tradition in China underwent significant changes.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Part 1: Hermeneutics of Confucian Classics
1. Weighing the Way: Metaphoric Balance in Analects 9:30	3	(16)
John Berthrong
2. An Alternative Hermeneutics of Truth: Cui Shu's Evidential Scholarship on Confucius	19	(14)
Kai-wing Chow
3. Text and Context: Mencius' View on Understanding the Poems of the Ancients	33	(14)
Chen Chao-ying
4. The Book of Odes: A Case Study of the Chinese Hermeneutic Tradition	47	(18)
Kuang Yu Chen
Part 2: Chinese Hermeneutics Beyond the Confucian Classics
5. Early Modes on Interpretation of the Military Canons: The Case of the Sunzi bingfa	65	(16)
Robin Yates
6. Purifying the World: A Political Discourse in the Late Han	81	(12)
Huai-chen Kan
7. Early Medieval Scholars' Hermeneutics of the Calendrical Classics and the Astronomical Heavens	93	(10)
John B. Henderson
8. Storytelling and the Earliest Buddhist Oral Text in China: Clues from Kumarajiva's Commentary on the Vimalakirti-sutra	103	(16)
Yuet Keung Lo
Part 3: Zhu Xi's Construction of Neo-Confucian Hermeneutics
9. The Debate on Ren between Zhu Xi and the Huxiang Scholars	119	(14)
Ming-huei Lee
10. Zhu Xi's Poetic Hermeneutics and the Polemics of the "Licentious Poems"	133	(16)
Jianhua Chen
11. Two Ages, One Agenda? Zhu Xi's Rules of Interpretation Versus Wang Yi's Exegesis of the Songs of Chu	149	(14)
Michael Schimmelpfennig
Part 4: Paradigm Shifts and Interpretative Strategies in the Ming-Qing Period
12. Paradigm Shifts through Different Interpretations of the Classics in the Transitional Period from the Late Ming to the Early Qing	163	(14)
Shu-hsien Liu
13. Commentaries and Subcommentaries: The Relationship Between Zhu and Shu in the Confucian Hermeneutic Tradition	177	(14)
Chang Pao-san
14. Inter-Explanation of the Classics: Qing Scholars' Methods for Interpreting the Five Classics	191	(14)
Dennis Chi-hsiung Cheng
15. Gender and Interpretation: Form and Rhetoric in Ming-Qing Women's Poetry Criticism	205	(16)
Grace S. Fong
Part 5: Chinese Hermeneutics in Modern Times
16. In Defense of History: Zhang Binglin's Interpretation of the Zuo Commentary	221	(20)
Young-tsu Wong
17. Tradition, Modernity, and Critical Historical Consciousness: Lu Xun's Reflections on History	241	(16)
Ban Wang
18. Toward a Humanist Interpretation of Tradition: The Hermeneutics of the "Critical Review Group"	257	(20)
Q. Edward Wang
Part 6: Chinese Hermeneutics: East and West
19. Historical Narrative and Universal Principles in the Confucian Classics	277	(20)
Chun-chieh Huang
20. Affinity and Aporia: A Confucian Engagement with Gadamer's Hermeneutics	297	(14)
On-cho Ng
21. Chinese "Hermeneutics"-A Chimera? Preliminary Remarks on Differences of Understanding	311	(10)
Wolfgang Kubin
22. Inquiring into the Primary Model: The Yijing and the Structure of the Chinese Hermeneutic Tradition	321	(22)
Chung-ying Cheng
Contributors	343	(4)
Glossary	347	(14)
Index	361