Creating Confucian Authority: The Field of Ritual Learning in Early China to 9 CE (Sinica Leidensia) - Hardcover

Chard, Robert L

9789004461918: Creating Confucian Authority: The Field of Ritual Learning in Early China to 9 CE (Sinica Leidensia)

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ISBN 10: 9004461914 ISBN 13: 9789004461918

Verlag: Brill, 2021

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Ritual Learning is a key driver in the cultural dominance of Confucianism. In early China, Confucian officials derive political influence from the sub-discipline of ritual. Imperial regimes establish legitimacy through their state religion, headed by sacrifices to ancestors and to deities of Heaven and Earth. Ritual Learning allows Confucian-educated officials to assert control over these cults, and reshape dynastic legitimacy according to their own design, claimed to derive from the sage kings of antiquity. Confucianism is not just a philosophical and intellectual tradition. Through its ritual expertise, it has cultural and political power, like that of a religion, allowing it to perpetuate itself successfully over time, even in contemporary China.

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Robert L. Chard, PhD (1990, University of California, Berkeley) is University Lecturer/Associate Professor in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Anne's College. He has published on the visible culture of Confucianism in China and Japan.

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