The Five Classics associated with Confucius formed the core
curriculum in the education of Chinese literati throughout most of
the imperial period. In this book Michael Nylan offers a sweeping
assessment of these ancient texts and shows how their influence
spread across East Asia. Nylan begins by tracing the formation of
the Five Classics canon in the pre-Han and Han periods, 206
B.C.-A.D. 220, revising standard views on the topic. She assesses
the impact on this canon of the invention of a rival corpus, the
Four Books, in the twelfth century. She then analyzes each of the
Five Classics, discussing when they were written, how they were
transmitted and edited in later periods, and what political,
historical, and ethical themes were associated with them through
the ages. Finally she deliberates on the intertwined fates of
Confucius and the Five Classics over the course of the twentieth
century and shows how the contents of the Five Classics are
relevant to much newer concerns.
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