Talent of Shu,: Qiao Zhou and the Intellectual World of Early Medieval Sichuan

by Farmer, J. Michael

• ISBN13: 9780791471647
• ISBN10: 0791471640
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

The Talent of Shu reconstructs the intellectual world of early medieval Sichuan through a critical biography of Qiao Zhou, a noted classicist, historian, and official of Shu-Han. Countering conceptions of Sichuan as an intellectual backwater, author J. Michael Farmer provides an analytical narrative history of the significant intellectual and scholarly activity in the region during the late second through third centuries CE.

Author Biography

J. Michael Farmer is Assistant Professor of Chinese History at the University of Texas at Dallas

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Terms and Conventions	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
The Intellectual World of Early Sichuan	p. 7
"Civilizing" the Southwest: Intellectual Activity in the Former Han
Observing the Stars: Intellectual Activity in the Later Han
A Three States "Forest of Classicists": Intellectual Activity in Shu-Han
The Early Life of Qiao Zhou	p. 31
The Qiao Family in Ba
Youth and Education
Scholarship and the State	p. 45
The Founding of Shu-Han
Educating the Heir and the Province
Debates on Military Policy
The Fall of Shu-Han
Critical Approaches to the Canon	p. 75
The State of Canonical Studies
Discourse on Truth and Falsehoods in the Five Canonical Texts
Critique of the Ritual Canon
The Influence of Qiao Zhou's Canonical Criticism
Critical Approaches to Ancient History	p. 95
The State of Historical Studies
Investigations of Ancient History
Critique of The Grand Scribe's Records and Other Ancient Histories
The Influence of Qiao Zhou's Historical Criticism
New Approaches to Local History	p. 121
The State of Local Historiography
The Local Histories of Qiao Zhou
The Influence of Qiao Zhou's Local Histories	p. 121
Epilogue	p. 145
Evaluating the Life of Qiao Zhou
Toward an Intellectual History of Third-Century China
Chronology: The Life of Qiao Zhou	p. 157
Notes	p. 159
Bibliography	p. 215
Index	p. 239
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