"The Analects" (Lunyu) is one of the most influential texts in
human history. As a putative record of Confucius' (551-479 bce)
teachings and a foundational text in scriptural Confucianism, this
classic was instrumental in shaping intellectual traditions in
China and East Asia until the early twentieth century. But no
premodern reader read only the text of "The Analects" itself.
Rather, "The Analects" was embedded in a web of interpretation that
mediated its meaning. Modern interpreters of "The Analects" only
rarely acknowledge this legacy of two thousand years of
commentaries. How well do we understand prominent or key
commentaries from this tradition? How often do we read such
commentaries as we might read the text on which they comment? Many
commentaries do more than simply comment on a text. Not only do
they shape the reading of the text, but passages of text serve as
pretexts for the commentator to develop and expound his own body of
thought. This book attempts to redress our neglect of commentaries
by analyzing four key works dating from the late second century to
the mid-nineteenth century (a period substantially contemporaneous
with the rise and decline of scriptual Confucianism): the
commentaries of He Yan (ca. 190-249); Huang Kan (488 to 545); Zhu
Xi (1130-1200); and Liu Baonan (1791-1855) and Liu Gongmian
(1821-1880).
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