Imagining Boundaries: Changing Confusion

Imagining Boundaries explores the mapping of the intellectual tradition of Confucianism in Chinese history. The authors show that the Confucian tradition is not a neatly packaged organic whole in which the constitutive parts fall naturally into place, but rather that it displays the ruptures of all cultural constructions. Accordingly, Confucianism has been configured and reconfigured in time in to changing intellectual and circumstances.

This anthology addresses the constant negotiation of the boundaries of Confucianism within itself and in relation to other intellectual traditions, the fluidity of the Confucian canon, the dialogical relations Between text and discourse in establishing boundaries for the Confucian tradition, and the textual and discursive strategies employed in the imagining of boundaries, which expanded or restricted the intellectual space of Confucianism.

Rejecting an interpretation of Confucianism as a homogenous master-narrative and worldview, the book uses the variegated histories of Confucianism to interrogate the tradition itself, un

Kai-Wing Chow is Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and is the author of The Rise of Ritualism in Late Imperial China: Ethics, Classics, and Lineage Discourse. On-Cho Ng is Associate Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. John B. Henderson is Professor of History and Religious Studies at Louisiana State University. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy: Neo-Confucian, Islamic, Jewish and Early Christian Patterns, also published by SUNY Press.

Introduction: Fluidity of the Confucian Canon and Discursive Strategies

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On-Cho Ng

Kai-Wing Chow

A Problematic Model: The Han ``Orthodox Synthesis,'' Then and Now

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Michael Nylan

The Formulation of Early Medieval Confucian Metaphysics: Huang K'an's (488-545) Accommodation of Neo-Taoism and Buddhism

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Yuet Keung Lo

Military Governance versus Civil Governance: A Comparison of the Old History and the New History of the Five Dynasties

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Tze-Ki Hon

Strategies in Neo-Confucian Heresiography

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John B. Henderson

``Goodness Unbound'': Wang Yang-ming and the Redrawing of the Boundary of Confucianism

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Kandice Hauf

Between Canonicity and Heterodoxy: Hermeneutical Moments of the Great Learning (Ta-hsueh)

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Kai-Wing Chow

Negotiating the Boundary between Hermeneutics and Philosophy in Early Ch'ing Ch'eng-Chu Confucianism: Li Kuang-ti's (1642-1718) Study of the Doctrine of the Mean (Chung-yung) and Great Learning (Ta-hsueh)

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On-Cho Ng

Treading the Weedy Path: T'ang Chen (1630-1704) and the World of the Confucian Middlebrow

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Hsiung Ping-Chen

Discovering Monotheistic Metaphysics: The Exegetical Reflections of James Legge (1815-1897) and Lo Chung-fan (d. circa 1850)

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Lauren Pfister

Contributors

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Index

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Imagining Boundaries: Changing Confusion Doctrines, Texts and Hermeneutics

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