Ts'ao P'i Transcendent: Political Culture and Dynasty-Founding in China at the End of the Han

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ISBN: 9780966630008 | 0966630009
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Copyright: 11/19/1998

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Analyses the foundation of the San-kuo Wei Dynasty by Ts'ao P'i in 220 CE, using the main historical accounts, a wide range of religious and philosophical writings, epigraphical records, and above all, the records contained in the commentaries to Ch'en Shou's San-kuo chih by the fifth century writer P'ei Sung-chih.

Introduction to Strategy and Subject Matter

(1)

Writing Strategy

(1)

The Historical Subject Matter

(12)

PART I RULING AUTHORITY AND LEGITIMACY BEFORE THE HAN-WE I TRANSITION

The Early Culture of Authority and Legitimation and the Ch'In and Han Models

(30)

Modern Approaches to the Study of Authority and Legitimation

(2)

Developments in the Ancient Period: Revelation, Divination, Philosophy

(14)

The Culture of Legitimation as a Tool of Dynasty-Founding

(13)

Steps Towards Dynasty-Founding: TS'AO and SSU-MA Family, Local, and National Power

(16)

The Ts'ao and Ssu-ma Families: Northern Military Leaders

(10)

Setting the Stage for a New Authority and Legitimacy

(6)

PART II NOVEMBER 19 TO DECEMBER 11: A MESS OF INK

November 19: an Announcement in the Han Imperial Cult

(10)

Wei Chi's Text of the Emperor's Shrine Speech

(2)

A Scholar Specializing in Antique Scripts and and Legitimation Texts

(6)

Undated: Celestial-Master Taoists Deliver a Pro-Ts'ao p'i Oracle

(17)

``Hsien-ti chuan''

(2)

Chang Lu and the Five-Peck, or Celestial-Master, Taoists

(5)

Ts'ao P'i Accepts the Oracle-Text and Its Prediction

(10)

November 20--22: a Core Group of Legitimation Experts

(23)

Former Southerners at the Ts'ao Court

(3)

Eminent Northerners and the Ying-ch'uan Contingent

(6)

The Core Group Explains Oracle-Text

(2)

The Testimony of Crucial Specialists

100

(11)

November 23--24: Ssu-Ma i's Philosophy of Political Action and Ts'ao P'i's Hero-Refusers

111

(11)

Landed General, Local Defender, and Military Ritualist

116

(6)

November 25--29: Ts'ao P'i's Emblems of Transcendent Rule

122

(23)

The Han Emperor Makes an Excuse

122

(3)

Ts'ao P'i Castigates the Core Group

125

(1)

A Chuang-tzu Emblem of the Transcendent-Refuser

126

(7)

Ts'ao P'i Calls upon Divine Omens

133

(6)

Collecting and Alluding: Literature as Political Jousting

139

(6)

November 30 - December 7: Ritual Chronology Links the Ts'ao House with Chuan HSU and the Yellow Emperor

145

(11)

Tung Pa's Theory of a Chuan Hsu Calendar

146

(4)

A Yellow Emperor Genealogy

150

(1)

An I-ching Pep-Talk

151

(5)

December 7--10: the Highest Officials and the Core Group Facilitate the Accession

156

(11)

The Three Excellencies

157

(5)

The Ethics of Political Sharing

162

(2)

Philosophy, Souls of Deceased Rulers, and Omens

164

(3)

PART III REVERBERATIONS

December II: The Unfolding of Ts'ao-wei Court Ritual

167

(26)

December II: The Han Emperor's Invocation

168

(2)

Ts'ao P'i's (Wen-ti's) Ceremonies and Proposals for Court Ritual

170

(20)

Trouble Ahead for Wen-ti and the Dynasty

190

(3)

The Stele of 221 A. D.: Ts'ao Ts'ao's Generals Sign on to the New Dynasty

193

(26)

The Stele at Fan-yang

193

(2)

Translation and Provenance of the Stele Text

195

(14)

Ts'ao P'i's Military Underpinning

209

(6)

Gesture and Historiography

215

(4)

CONCLUSION

219

(9)

Pioneers in the Study of Dynastic Legitimation

224

(4)

Appendix: the Reliability of the Sources

228

(7)

Bibliography

235

(10)

Index

245

(5)

Tables

250

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Ts'ao P'i Transcendent: Political Culture and Dynasty-Founding in China at the End of the Han

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