Conventions
Dukes of Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I Speech and Pattern
1 The Rhetoric of Good Order
Speech and the Order of Prose/ Rhetoric in Practice/ Rhetoric in Theory/ Rhetoric in Philosophy
2 Wen and Meaning of Verbal Art
Wen and Burden of Artifacts/ Texts as Artifacts: Citing and Zhouyi/ Artifacts of the Zhou: Citing Shi and Shangshu/ King Wen and Wenci/ The Concert for Ji Zha
3 Intelligibility in Extra-human World
Heaven and Earth/ The Five Phases and Yin-yang/ Theories of the Human: Music, War, and the Responsive Universe
4 Order in the Human World
Spirits and Ancestors/ Cultural Others/ The Royal Center/ The Hegemon/ Interstate Relations/ Internal Administration/ The Confucian Virtues
Part II Narrative and Justice
5 The Anecdotal History
Readings of Historiographical Narrative/ Form and Judgement/ Experiments in Vision
6 Narrative and Recompense
The Anecdote Series/ Bao and the Economy of Narrative
7 Aesthetics and Meaning
Pleasures and Consequences/ Poetry Recitation/ War and the Utopian Gesture
8 Writing and the Ends of History
The Invisible Authors/ Time and Narration/ The Decline of the Zhou Order/ The Rise of the South/ The Dilemma of Writing/ The Death of Confucius and the Birth of HIstoriography
Appendix
Orality and the Origins of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu
Reference Matter
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