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Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate
sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk
singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral
history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey
that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music
tradition.
This exciting third volume of David M. Honey's comprehensive
history of Chinese thought begins with China after nomadic invaders
overran the northern regions of the historic kingdom. The
differentiation between scholarly emphases-northern focus on the
traditional pedagogical commentary, and southern classical school's
more innovative commentary-led to an emphasis on the interpretation
of the overall message of a text, not a close reading of smaller
sections. As Honey explains, serious attention to the phonological
nature of Chinese characters also began during in this long era.
Based on the work of earlier Sui dynasty classicists, Kong Yinga
and his committee produced the Correct Meaning commentary to the
Five Classics during the early Tang Dynasty, which is still largely
normative today. The book demonstrates that the brooding presence
of Zheng Xuan, the great textual critic from the Eastern Han
dynasty, still exerted enormous influence during this period, as
his ritualized approach to the classics inspired intellectual
followers to expand on his work or impelled opponents to break off
in new directions.
Descended from African American slaves, Native Americans, and white
slaveowners, John Handcox was born to a family of poor Arkansas
sharecroppers at one of the hardest times to be black in America.
Over the first few decades of the twentieth century, he survived
attempted lynchings, floods, droughts, and the ravages of the Great
Depression to organize black and white farmers alike on behalf of
the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. He also became one of the most
beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement, composing songs
such as Roll the Union On and There Is Mean Things Happening in
this Land that bridged racial divides and kept the spirits of
striking workers high. Though he withdrew from the public eye for
nearly forty years, missing the folk boom of the 1960s, he
resurfaced decades later - just in time to denounce the policies of
the Reagan administration in song - and his work was embraced by
new generations of labor activists and folk music devotees. This
fascinating and beautifully told oral history gives us John Handcox
in his own words, recounting a journey that began in a
sharecropper's shack in the Deep South and went on to shape the
labor music tradition, all amid the tangled and troubled history of
the United States in the twentieth century.
Volume II of David M. Honey’s comprehensive history of Chinese
thought covers a vital 500-year stretch in China’s history, from
national unification in 221 BCE to the first post-imperial
fragmentation into rival northern and southern polities. This
volume discusses the reconstitution of the classics after the
textual devastation wrought by the policies of the First Emperor of
Qin, who destroyed many of them, and their eventual canonization by
the crown during the Western Han period. Honey also examines the
professionalization of Chinese classical scholarship as a
state-sponsored enterprise, whereby private masters gave way to
tenured academicians who specialized in single classical works.
This volume also covers the development of various subgenres in the
discipline of philology by the three great Eastern Han classicists
Liu Xiang in textual criticism, Xu Shen in lexicography, and the
polymath Zheng Xuan in the exegesis of virtually all the classics.
Honey concludes with an examination of Zheng Xuan as the
inspiration for other exegetical modes to explain textual
complexities following this era.
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